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Question: A colorblind man married with a daughter of a color-blind father, the generation will be A. all ch...

A colorblind man married with a daughter of a color-blind father, the generation will be
A. all children will be colorblind
B. only sons will be colorblind
C. only daughters will be colorblind
D. half sons will be colorblind

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Solution

Color blindness is the disease in which a person is unable to distinguish one or more colors of the eyes, and it is sex-linked genetic diseases that mainly affect males mostly than females.

Complete answer: Generally in humans, this disease is inherited, where the genes that are present on the cones of eyes that are responsible for color vision are defective.
This color blindness X-linked disease, where that color-blind defective gene is transferred from parents to offspring.
In the above question, they mentioned that colorblind man, as we know that it is X linked, so in males, only one X chromosome is present which means one gene causes the disease if it is dominant.
So color-blind male married to the daughter of color-blind father, as we know that daughter always obtain X chromosome from father, so the color blind genes from father are transmitted to daughter, but their won’t be any phenotypic expressions as there is another X chromosome which masks the disease, but this daughter is present as carrier.
So the sons of color-blind father and carrier mother have probability where half of sons' progeny may present as color blindness.
So the correct option is D.

Note: Color blindness are mainly occurs in males, it is because they have only X chromosome, the gene responsible for color blindness if transmitted, there will be phenotypic expression, but for the female to produce the color blindness, where both X chromosomes should have dominant genes for color blindness, even single makes them carrier but not shows the phenotypic expression.