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Color-blindness is a recessive x-linked trait. If a color-blind female is and a normal-sighted male have children, what percent of the biologically male offspring will be colorblind?.

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Most commonly, color blindness is inherited as a recessive trait on the X chromosome. This is known in genetics as X-linked recessive inheritance. As a result, the condition tends to affect males more often than females (8% male, 0.5% female).

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