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More men suffer from colour blindness than women because
(a)Women are more resistant to disease than men
(b)The male sex hormone testosterone causes the disease
(c)The colour blind gene is carried on the chromosome
(d)Men are hemizygous and one defective gene is enough to make them colour blind

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