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Human Heredity 11th Edition by Michael Cummings

Edition 11ISBN: 978-1305251052
book Human Heredity 11th Edition by Michael Cummings cover

Human Heredity 11th Edition by Michael Cummings

Edition 11ISBN: 978-1305251052
Exercise 16
A young boy is color-blind. His one brother and five sisters are not. The boy has three maternal uncles and four maternal aunts. None of his uncles' children or grandchildren is color-blind. One of the maternal aunts married a color-blind man, and half of her children, both male and female, are color-blind. The other aunts married men who have normal color vision. All their daughters have normal vision, but half of their sons are color-blind.
A) Which of the boy's four grandparents transmitted the gene for color blindness?
B) Are any of the boy's aunts or uncles color-blind?
C) Is either of the boy's parents color-blind?
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Pattern X-linked recessive
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