In humans, XO individuals are females with Turner syndrome and XXY individuals are males with Klinefelter syndrome. Red-green color blindness is caused by an X-linked recessive allele. Suppose a color-blind man and a woman with normal vision and no family history of color blindness married and had a daughter who was color blind and had Turner syndrome. Which event could have given rise to this offspring?

A) nondisjunction at meiosis I in the mother
B) nondisjunction at meiosis II in the mother
C) nondisjunction at meiosis I in the father
D) nondisjunction at meiosis II in the father
E) nondisjunction at either meiosis I or meiosis II in the mother


E) nondisjunction at either meiosis I or meiosis II in the mother

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