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In humans, red-green color blindness is recessive and X-linked, while albinism is recessive and autosomal. What types of children can be produced as the result of marriages between two homozygous parents, a normal-visioned albino woman and a color-blind, normally pigmented man?

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Inheritance of color blindness is X-linked and albinism is inherited through autosomal chromosome.

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Genotype of Normal-visioned albino women = aaXX
Genotype of color blind normally pigmented = AAXcY ...

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