Normal color vision (XM) is dominant over color blindness (X"). Suppose a color-blind man fathers the children of a woman with the genotype XNXN. a. What genotype is the father?. b. What proportion of daughters will be color-blind? c. What proportion of sons will be color-blind? .

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