SOLUTION: Genetic problems, Sex-linked problems: A man and his wife both have normal color vision, but a daughter has red-green color blindness, a sex-linked recessive trait. The man sues h

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Question 132736: Genetic problems, Sex-linked problems:
A man and his wife both have normal color vision, but a daughter has red-green color blindness, a sex-linked recessive trait. The man sues his wife for divorce on grounds of infidelity. Can genetics prove evidence supporting his case?

Answer by scott8148(6628)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
yes

the daughter displays the sex-linked recessive which means she got a recessive from both parents

since the man does not display the recessive, he does not carry it
__ so the daughter had a different father

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