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The children of a colour-blind mother and a normal father will be

[A] Normal daughters and sons[B] Normal sons and carrier daughters[C] Colour blind sons and carrier daughters[D] Colour blind sons and daughters

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Choice C. Color blindness affects the X chromosome. The children will get one X color blind chromosome from the mother (who has two color blind X chromosomes). For a boy, he will get a Y from the father and be color blind. A girl will get a healthy X chromosome from the father and be a carrier.

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