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Red-green color blindness is a sex-linked trait, with the normal vision phenotype being dominant (C) and...

Red-green color blindness is a sex-linked trait, with the normal vision phenotype being dominant (C) and the color blind (c) phenotype being recessive.  If you are male and your father is color blind, what is the chance (expressed as a percentage) that you will inherit his trait for color blindness?  What if your mother is a carrier for color blindness (but your father is not color blind), what is the chance of you being color blind? Make sure to explain your answers.

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colorblindness is a sex-linked recessive trait that is the gene is located on the X chromosome, and men inherit their X chromosome from mother, for a man to be affected with sickle cell anemia he has to have mutated c allele on his X chromosome, if his father is affected he cannot pass the X chromosome with mutated allele to his Sons, he passes Y chromosome to his sons so a male whose father is affected cannot be affected with the disease so the chance that a son will inherit the colorblindness of his father is 0

XC-dominant allele and Xc-mutated allele then

mother is XCXc and the father is XCY

XCXc * XCY

XC Xc
XC XCXC (normal female) XCXc( carrier female)
Y XCY (normal male) XcY ( colorblind male)

chance of getting a colorblind male= (number of colorblind males/total number of male)100=(1/2)100=50%

so chance that a male is affected if the mother a carrer=50%

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