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45. Red–green color blindness is a human X-linked recessive disorder. Jill has normal color vision, but her father is color blind. Jill marries Tom, who also has normal color vision. Jill and Tom have a daughter who has Turner syndrome and is color blind. a. How did the daughter inherit color blindness? b. Did the daughter inherit her X chromosome from Jill or from Tom?

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a).Jill and Tom both have recessive traits for color-blindness. There is a 25% chance of their children being color-blind

b) she inherited the X chromosome from both Jill and Tom

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