NEET Biology question

A women with albinic father marries an albinic man. The proportion of her progeny is

(A)2 normal : 1 albinic
(B)All normal
(C)All albinic
(D)1 normal : 1 albinicCorrect

Answer: (D)

Solution

Albinism is an autosomal recessive trait; the woman, though phenotypically normal herself, must be heterozygous () since her father was albinic () and necessarily passed her one recessive

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