color blindness by: sharraf cruz, amir baylock, plus vincent tucci
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Color BlindnessBy: Sharraf Cruz, Amir Baylock, PLUS VINCENT
TUCCI
Color blindness is a hereditary disorder where your sight is affected so that you cannot see certain colors to their full potential or you see another color in replacement for the real color.
This disorder is held by the X chromosome in men and women.
Color blindness is hereditary, therefore if you’re a girl and your dad has color blindness and your mom is at least a carrier of color blindness and you have it, it is true that they passed it on to you or if a boy it would mean your mom was a carrier and your dad has nothing to do with it.
A really effective way to tell is to go to an eye doctor and ask for a test for color blindness they show a series of pictures( Such as the ones below).
You may also figure it out by accident such a pointing to something that is red and saying it is green, a friend or person may correct you and say the real color.
The symptoms are that you cannot see some colors and you mix up different colors, also it was a 50-50 chance that you could get color blindness.
Color blindness is caused when certain photoreceptors are broken or damaged and it cannot interpret colors.
One type of color blindness is Red-Green color blindness which is when a color blind person cannot detect red or green hues or colors. This is more common in males than females.
Another type of color blindness is Blue-Yellow color blindness which is when a person cannot detect blue or yellow hues or colors.
The last and rarest kind of color blindness is full color blindness which is when you cant see any color at all except black, white, and gray.
There is no way to tell if a child is color blind from a fetal diagnosis. The only effective way to test for color blindness is from the test that you get from your eye doctor. You can do this when the child is a least 4 years old and knows how to tell colors apart.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness
http://www.colorblind.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=73
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