Colour Blindness: Causes & Symptoms ||Class 12 Biology

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      Colour blindness is a recessive sex-linked trait. The recessive allele are carried by X-chromosome. Colour blindness is also known as colour vision deficiency, is the decreased ability to see differences in colour. Red-green colour blindness is the most common form, followed by blue-yellow colour blindness and total colour blindness. In Red-green colour blindness, the affected eye fail to distinguish between red and green colours.
     The ishihara colour test, which consists of a series of pictures of coloured spots, is the test most often used to diagnose red-green colour deficiencies.

Ishihara card

      In female, it appears only when both the sex chromosome carry the gene (XcXc). The females function as carries in the presence of a single recessive gene (XXc) while in males the defects appears in the presence of a single recessive gene (XcY) because Y-chromosome does not carry any gene for colour vision.
     There is no cure for colour blindness. Special lenses may help people with red-green colour blindness when under bright conditions.


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