Gujarati
4.Principles of Inheritance and Variation
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A colour blind man marries the daughter of a colour blind person. Then in their progeny

A

None of their daughters are colour blind

B

All the sons are colour blind

C

All the daughters are colour blind

D

Half of their sons are colour blind

(AIPMT-1988) (AIIMS-1983)

Solution

(d)Since daughter of a colourblind person will be a carrier of the disease and only one of the two $X$ chromosomes will bear the recessive gene for disease, so half of their sons will be colourblind.

Standard 12
Biology

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