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The human body has ~37 trillion cells — more than the number of stars in the Milky Way.
To solve this problem, we need to determine the genetic inheritance of color blindness in the children of the couple described.Color blindness is a sex-linked recessive trait, located on the X chromosome.Let's denote the alleles as follows: for the normal vision allele for the color-blind allele - Y for the male chromosomeThe man's genotype:Since his father was color blind, the man must have inherited a normal X chromosome from his mother The woman's genotype:Her mother was color blind and her father was normal , so she must be a carrier Now, let's determine the possible genotypes of their children:For male children, the possible combinations are: - from the mother and Y from the father - normal vision - from the mother and Y from the father - color blindSince the mother is a carrier, there is a 50% chance of passing the allele to her sons.Therefore, 50% of their male children will be color blind.This corresponds to Option 3.
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