what is the risk of a colorblind child in a family when father is colorblind but mother is normal
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Explanation:
When a color blind father and a who carries the color blind gene have children, there is a 50% chance that their sons will be color blind. Their daughters, however, will have a 50% chance of being color blind and 100% chance of being carriers of the gene.
Answer:
Colorblindness is a X-linked chromosome. The man having XY chromosomes (1 X chromosome) abd female having XX chromosome (2 X chromosome).
If the male is colorblind but the mother is normal then there is 50% chance to reproduce the colorblind disease progeny and 50% other.
In this both parents carries the genetic material which transmits the disease into the profeny.
More to know :
xx is color blind female child
Xx is the carrier but not affected female
xY is the colorblind male child
XY is normal boy which is neither colorblind nor carrier.