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Question
A woman with normal vision marries a man with normal vision. They have a colourblind son. Her husband dies and she marries a colourblind man. Show the type of children that might be expected from this marriage and the proportion of each.
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Solution
In the first marriage of woman the son was colourblind therefore the woman is a carrier genotype of that Woman: XX

Since the man in the second marriage was colourblind.
The genotype of that man: XY
A possible combination of this marriage.
Expected result:
| Sons: | 50% | Normla: | 25% |
| Colourblind: | 25% | ||
| Daughter: | 50% | (carrier) normal: | 25% |
| Colourblind: | 25% |
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