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A colour blind boy is born to a couple with a normal colour vision. Write the genotype of the parents.

Colour blindness is a sex-linked disorder in which the female is generally the carrier. In case of parents who are normal as the colour blindness gene is carried on the X chromosome.

Therefore, the genotype of the parents are:


Father – XY


Mother – XXC.


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