A man who is a dwarf with achondroplasia and normal vision marries a color-blind woman of normal height. The man's father was si
x feet tall, and both the woman's parents were of average height. Dwarfism caused by achondroplasia is autosomal dominant, and red-green color blindness is X-linked recessive. What proportion of their sons would be color blind and of normal height? (A) none (B) half (C) one out of four (D) all
Autosomal dominate refers to alleles harbored by any chromosome other than the sexual pair that show complete dominance over the recessive ones.
The dwarf male father with normal height is homozygous recessive for achondroplasia. The male of heterozygous for the character because this is autosomal dominant. He is also normal vision reason he is X-NY.
The women is color blind and normal height. The cross is X-NYAa x XnX naa. The father will produced gametes x-NA,X-Na , YA and Ya and the mother only gamete X-na. So the son of this type of couple is X-nYAa which can be color blind and dwarf and normal height.
