Red-green colour blindness is a deficiency of colour vision so that a person affected by it cannot tell the difference between red and green. This is an X-linked recessive condition.

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Problem 2CT: Human sex chromosomes are XX for females and XY for males. a. With respect to an X-linked gene, how...
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Red-green colour blindness is a deficiency of colour vision so that a person affected by it cannot tell the difference between red and green. This is an X-linked recessive condition. 

Which statement is correct? 

a) The allele is written as X^r, and an affected female is heterozygous. 

b) The allele is written as X^r; an affected male is X^rY and a heterozygous female is X^RX^r

c)The allele is written as X^r and a male with genotype X^RY is affected

d) The allele is written as X^R; a normal male is X^RY and a homozygous recessive female is X^rX^r.

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