Question

What needs to occur for a male to be color blind?

Responses

He needs to inherit a recessive allele that causes color blindness from both his parents.


He needs to inherit a recessive allele that causes color blindness from either his mother or father.


He needs to inherit a recessive allele that causes color blindness from his father.

He needs to inherit a recessive allele that causes color blindness from his mother.

Answer 1

Explanation:The sole X chromosome that males inherit from their mother is. They will suffer red-green color blindness if that X chromosome carries the red-green color blindness gene rather than a normal X chromosome. Two X chromosomes, one from the mother and one from the father, are present in females.