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You are studying the population in Iceland for X-linked alleles, and sampling experiments indicate that about 6% of the men have red-green color blindness (caused by a recessive, X-linked allele c). Assume that the population in Iceland mates randomly.
a. What percentage of men will carry the allele c? What percentage of women will carry at least one copy of the allele?
b. What percentage of women is expected to be color blind?
c. What percentage of the total population is color blind?
d. What percentage of color-blind individuals are men?
e. What percentage of individuals in the population is expected to be normal carriers for the color-blind allele?
f. After two generations, what percentage of men in the population is expected to be color blind? To have normal vision?
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