Color blindness is an X-linked recessive trait. Under what conditions can an unaffected male have a color-blind daughter?

  1. He is heterozygous for color vision
  2. His father is color-blind
  3. His mother is color-blind
  4. He cannot

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A daughter must inherit one X chromosome from her father.
An unaffected male has a dominant allele on his only X chromosome.
Since he passes this dominant allele to all daughters, they cannot express the recessive trait.
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