Daniel suffers from red-green color blindness, an X-linked recessive trait. Daniel's wife, Maggie, has normal color visi

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Daniel suffers from red-green color blindness, an X-linked recessive trait. Daniel's wife, Maggie, has normal color visi

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Daniel suffers from red-green color blindness, an X-linkedrecessive trait.
Daniel's wife, Maggie, has normal color vision
Daniel's sister, Ana, has normal color vision. Ana's husband,Charlie, also has normal color vision.
Ana and Charlie have two daughters, Daisy and Georgia, who havenormal color vision and a son, Bert (nicknamed Blue), who is colorblind.
Daniel and Ana’s parents, Adam and Tammi, both have normal colorvision.
a. Who are definitely carriers inthis family?
b. What is/are Daisy's possible genotype(s)?
c. If we know that Maggie does not carry the color-blindnessallele, what is the probability that Daniel and she will have achild with color blindness? What is the probability that they willhave a child who is a carrier for color blindness? Explain youranswers
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