NEET Biology Principle Of Inheritance And Variation Question Bank Sex Linked Inheritance

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    Colour blindness is found more in males than in females because [MP PMT 1992]

    A) The males containing the single affected X chromosome are colour blind

    B) Heterozygous females are colour blind

    C) Males having affected Y chromosome are colour blind

    D) Affected X chromosome has much high affinity to Y chromosome as compared to unaffected X chromosome

    Correct Answer: A

    Solution :

    Because colour blindness is a recessive sex-linked disease, genes of which are present exclusively on non-homologous segment of X chromosome, so males need only one affected chromosome to express the character whereas females need both the affected chromosomes to exhibit the same.


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