Consider a mother with normal vision who has a son with red-green color blindness. The mother was a "carrier" of the affected gene, as she had a normal phenotype but

A. two recessive alleles.
B. two dominant alleles.
C. one dominant and one recessive allele.
D. a codominant set of alleles.
E. an incompletely penetrating genotype.


C

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