In humans, red-green colorblindness is a recessive sex-linked characteristic. If a woman of normal vision whose father was color-blind marries a man of normal vision, what is the probability that their first son is color-blind? Options: 0.125 0.25 0.5 1

In humans, red-green colorblindness is a recessive sex-linked characteristic. If a woman of normal vision whose father was color-blind marries a man of normal vision, what is the probability that their first son is color-blind? Options: 0.125 0.25 0.5 1

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