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qid 2698 · psychology
Question: A woman transmits color blindness to her son although she herself displays normal color vision. The defect transmitted by this woman represents a characteristic of her
- phenotype
- Mitochondrial DNA
- Autosomes
- Recessive genes
- dominant genes
- Epigenetic markers
- Somatic cells
- genotype
- Y chromosome
Our answer: H. genotype Source quote machine-checked (strict)
How it was answered
Stored method, replayed by code (kind: formula)
Current source
OpenStax Concepts of Biology, Section 8.2 Laws of Inheritance
https://openstax.org/books/concepts-biology/pages/8-2-laws-of-inheritance
“The genotype is often written as YY or yy, for which each letter represents one of the two alleles in the genotype.”
Source quote machine-checked (strict)
Earlier version (superseded)
https://openstax.org/books/concepts-biology/pages/8-2-laws-of-inheritance
Source weak (http_get_200_text_and_question_terms)
Earlier version (superseded)
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