A krabby blind whale has married pearl who has normal vision. oneof their two sons is also colorblind. what arr the genotypes of the parents?

Heterozygous dominant (Bb) and homozygous recessive (bb)

Explanation:

This cross involves the gene that codes for color blindness in whales. The allele for no color blindness/normal vision (B) is dominant over the allele for color blindness (b). This means that B will mask the phenotypic expression of b in a heterozygous state (Bb).

According to the question, one of the parents is color blind meaning it possesses the homozygous recessive genotype (bb) while the other parent (pearl) has a normal vision which can either be homozygous dominant or heterozygous dominant since the normal vision allele (B) is dominant.

However, since one of the two offsprings (sons) is also color blind, this implies that the parent with normal vision is heterozygous i.e. contains both dominant and recessive alleles, for the trait. What happens is that, when a bb and Bb parent are crossed, they produce gametes with either a recessive or dominant allele.

The Bb produces gametes with B and b alleles while the bb produces gametes with b and b alleles. When this are crossed using a punnet square, four possible offsprings will be produced with two distinct genotypes: Bb and bb. Hence, this means that there is a 1/2 chance of producing an offspring with the recessive trait from this cross as the case is in the whales.

"1. it should be, it has been for about 20 years, and it's really not much different in the end than breeding animals to have particular traits. there are always concerns about genetically engineered animals/plants affecting the environment in unexpected negative ways, but i can't think of an example where the fears didn't turn out to be baseless.  

first, as you point out, it would be a great advance in pharmacology, to be able to tailor drugs and their doses to me. the pros involve better medical treatment. the cons involve privacy issues like insurance companies denying coverage to people with genetic risk factors. looking at dna markers wouldn't affect the frequency of genetic diseases, but it would allow detection of them earlier. and ok, actually i suppose that if people used this information to avoid having children with genetic diseases, some might decrease in frequency."

more words for this could be abiotic and biotic

abiotic: living organisms within an ecosystem

biotic: non-living organisms within an ecosystem