Color blindness is a recessive X-linked trait. A normal couple has a color-blind child. Who else in this family is probably color-blind?

A. the child's paternal grandmother
B. the child's maternal grandmother or grandfather
C. the child's maternal grandmother
D. the child's maternal grandfather
E. the child's paternal grandfather


Answer: D

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