Chapter 24, Problem 3AGP

Summary Introduction

To analyze:

The chances of the sons of a color-blind mother suffering from color blindness. The chances of the daughters being colorblind if the father is normal.

Introduction:

Color blindness is a sex-linked recessive gene regulated disease which is determined by the alleles situated on the X chromosome. However, a normal gene is essential to be present to make the retina color sensitive. The normal gene helps to differentiate between red and green color.