alleryColour blindness is inherited as
Aan autosomal recessive disorder
Ba sex linked recessive disorder
Ca sex linked dominant disorder
Da chromosomal disorder
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. a sex linked recessive disorder
1. Colour blindness arises from a defect in either the red or the green cone of the eye.
2. It is a sex linked recessive disorder.
3. The result is a failure to discriminate between those colours.
4. Being sex linked, it appears far more often in males than in females.
_Source: syllabus Biology Ch4 'Principles of Inheritance and Variation'_
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