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If a colour-blind man marries a women who is homozygous for normal colour vision, the probability of their son being colour-blind is
  1. 0.75
  2. 1
  3. 0
  4. 0.5

A
0.75
B
1
C
0.5
D
0
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Colour-blind man (XcY) and normal woman (XX) can not have a colour-blind son as it is an X-linked recessive trait and is inherited by criss-cross inheritance. To have a colour-blind son, the mother should be a carrier (XcX) or affected (XcXc) so as to pass the affected X chromosome to son.
Therefore, the correct answer is option C.

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