superSAIyan2
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Haemophilia and red-green colour blindness are X-linked recessive disorders and as a result females require two recessive alleles on the X chromosome to express the condition, whereas males only need one. Also females can be carriers for the disease; they can possess the recessive allele but this will be masked from the phenotype by a dominant allele. Hence it is rare to find females with a sexlinked disease.It is rare to find a female with a sex-linked disease such as haemophilia or red-green colour blindless. Justify this statement. [3]
A red cow and a white cow mated to produce four offspring: 1 was red, 1 was white and 2 were pink. Explain this type of inheritance and why it does not follow Mendelian ratios. 3M