Color blindness

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What it is?
Red-green colour blindness is when the affected person sees green, yellow, orange and red as the same colour. It is a sex linkage, which is a special case of linkage occurring when a gene is located on a sex chromosomes. (Usually the X chromosome)

What causes it?

Red green color blindness

 This condition affects about 8% of males, but only 0.4% of females because a female with normal colour vision may be homozygous for the normal colour vision allele (XBXB) or she may be heterozygous for normal colour vision (XBXb). For a female to be red-green colour blind, she must be homozygous recessive (HbHb). On the other hand, for a male to be red-green colour blind he only needs a single recessive allele for red-green colour vision (XbY)

What are the effects?

Colour blind people often try to eat unripe bananas because they cant tell the difference between a green unripe banana and a yellow ripe banana to them because both of the colors are the same shade they think they are the same colour.

Some food can look repulsive if you are colour blind, and colour blind children can seem particularly fussy over green vegetables spinach can look like cow pat.

Colour blind people can get quite cross with electrical goods which have red and green LED displays to indicate either that a battery needs charging or the machine is on standby