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A man and his wife are having trouble having a baby. Using modern technologies, the woman's eggs are removed, fertilized with her husband's sperm, and implanted into her uterus. The procedure is successful, and the woman gives birth to a healthy baby boy. After a while, though, they discover that their son is colorblind and has blood type O. The woman claims that the child can't be theirs since she has blood type A and her husband has type B. Also, neither parent is colorblind, although one grandparent (the woman's father) is also colorblind.

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Answer: Perhaps the sperm is not her husbands. Or the egg was switched with someone else.

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Answer:

since colorblindness is sex-linked, a son can inherit colorblindness if his mother has the recessive colorblindness allele.

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