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Of both normal parents, the chance of a male child becoming colour blind are

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no

B

possible only when all the four grand parents had normal vision

C

possible only when father's mother was colour blind

D

possible only when mother's father was colour blind

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D

Colour blindness is a X-linked recessive disease and the chance of a male child becoming colour blind of a normal parents is only when mother's father was colour blind.
This is criss-cross inheritance in which genes are transferred to a child from his material grandfather through his mother.
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