In humans, normal skin color (A) is dominant over albino (a).  An albino man marries a normal woman whose mother was an albino and whose father has normal skin color.  What is the genotype of the man and the woman?  What proportion of their children would be expected to be both normal skin pigmentation and have the trait for albino?

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In humans, normal skin color (A) is dominant over albino (a).  An albino man marries a normal woman whose mother was an albino and whose father has normal skin color.  What is the genotype of the man and the woman?  What proportion of their children would be expected to be both normal skin pigmentation and have the trait for albino?

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