Can women go colour blind

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Color blindness is the inability to differentiate between different colors. The most common type is red-green color blindness. This occurs in 8 percent of males and 0.4 percent of females. It occurs when either the red or green cones are not present or not functioning properly. People with this problem are not completely unable to see red or green, but often confuse the two colors. This is an inherited disorder and affects men more commonly since the capacity for color vision is located on the X chromosome. (Women have two X chromosomes, so the probability of inheriting at least one X with normal color vision is high; men have only one X chromosome to work with. The inability to see any color, or seeing only in different shades of gray, is very rare.

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Women can be color blind, but only if their father is. If they got a carrier gene from their color blind father and one from their mother, they would be homozygous recessive, and therefore would be colorblind. Actually I am a woman and my dad is color blind and I am not.

The answer says a woman can be color blind only if her father is. In your case, you had a chance of being color blind because your dad is.

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Not all women who are color blind has their father color blind. I - being female, I am partially color blind and cannot tell what different color shades are sometimes. Meaning I when dark purple is put in front of me I see light purple. Or if red is in front of me, I see pink. Vice versa, and same with other colors. My father is not color blind. I am not sure that this is color blindness that you have. It seems that you have a color vision defect called Protanomaly, where your color deficiency has to deal with saturation. When someone is color blind it has to deal with hue of the color. This form of color deficiency is also rare.

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Color blindness is yummy X-linked trait. That means it is carried in the X chromosome, which differentiates whether a baby will be a girl or a boy. Women have two X chromosomes (XX), and men have an XY combination. If a woman is a carrier for color blindness, only one of her chromosomes will be affected (we'll call it a little "x"), and for that reason she will not be colorblind. Men, on the other hand, only have one X chromosome, so any time they carry the colorblindness gene, they will be colorblind. Since women have two X chromosomes, both must be affected in order for her to be colorblind. A child inherits one chromosome from each parent. He/She will get an X chromosome from his/her mother, and an X from her father (if a girl) or a Y from his father (if a boy). Thus, her father must be colorblind, and her mother must be a carrier (or colorblind), and she must receive a copy of the affected chromosome. For the female offspring to be color blind, the father must be color blind. A father with normal vision would produce heterozygous female offspring and they would be a carrier.

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OK girls can not get colorblind only guys have the chromosome gene because the women gives the X and the guy determines if it a boy or girl the colorblind is in the Y chromosome if you get that one your a guy i know this my mom works at a hospital girls can not become colorblind.

_ok im not the one who posted this but i am here to say that's bull crap my mom is fully color blind and can only see black white and shades of gray like those old movies. its do to a mutation of cells in there eyes that kicks out color cones

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I just got done studying genetics and yes it is VERY RARE but women can be colorblind. If a female gets a bad X-chromosome from mom then she is a carrier and can pass it to her son but if she gets a bad one from her mom then her dad would have to have a bad one for her to be colorblind, which is what makes it rare that she would get a bad one from her mother and her dad would be colorblind. She could just get the bad one from dad if he is colorblind but a good one from mom and still be just a carrier.

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I am a woman who is red--green colorblind. The trait is carried on the X chromosome. Males receive an X chromosome from their mother and a Y from their father. If the X carries the trait of colorblindness, the male will be colorblind. Females need to receive two defective X chromosomes to be colorblind, one from their father and one from their mother. If a women has only one defective X chromosome, she will be a carrier of the trait. My father was red-green colorblind and so was my mother's father, making my mother a carrier of the trait, although she is not colorblind herself. I have two sisters who are not colorblind, as they each received a non-defective X chromosome from my mother. I knew before my son was born that he would be red-green colorblind, as the X chromosome he received from me carried the trait.

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yes, they can be. My friend Christy is.

It is possible for females to be colour blind, but much more likely for boys. Colour blindness is a sex-linked trait, carried on the X-chromosome, and it is recessive. Boys only have one X-chromosome, which means that is they get the recessive colour-blindness trait, they will be colour blind. Girls, on the other hand, have two X-chromosomes. If they have one or two of the dominant traits, they wil lhave 'normal' vision. In order to be colour blind, girls have to inherit the recessive trait from both parents, and have it on both genes, unlike males, who only need one.

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Anyone can be color blind, regardless of gender. However, men do make up the majority of people who are color blind.
Anyone can be color blind, regardless of gender. However, men do make up the majority of people who are color blind.

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No. It is passed from the woman to a son, not a daughter.

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I am a woman who is red--green colorblind. The trait is carried on the X chromosome. Males receive an X chromosome from their mother and a Y from their father. If the X carries the trait of colorblindness, the male will be colorblind. Females need to receive two defective X chromosomes to be colorblind, one from their father and one from their mother. If a women has only one defective X chromosome, she will be a carrier of the trait. My father was red-green colorblind and so was my mother's father, making my mother a carrier of the trait, although she is not colorblind herself. I have two sisters who are not colorblind, as they each received a non-defective X chromosome from my mother. I knew before my son was born that he would be red-geen colorblind, as the X chromosome he received from me carried the trait.

Answer 5

A women cannot get color blind. Even if the father has the genes, the women cannot get it. People say how they can. but it is not possible unless surgery is involved.

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I am a woman who is red--green colorblind. The trait is carried on the X chromosome. Males receive an X chromosome from their mother and a Y from their father. If the X carries the trait of colorblindness, the male will be colorblind. Females need to receive two defective X chromosomes to be colorblind, one from their father and one from their mother. If a women has only one defective X chromosome, she will be a carrier of the trait. My father was red-green colorblind and so was my mother's father, making my mother a carrier of the trait, although she is not colorblind herself. I have two sisters who are not colorblind, as they each received a non-defective X chromosome from my mother. I knew before my son was born that he would be red-green colorblind, as the X chromosome he received from me carried the trait.

Answer 6

There is a small (less than 5 percent) percentage of woman that are color blind.
There is a small (less than 5 percent) percentage of woman that are color blind.
They can be, but it's extremely rare, only about .5% of the female population has any type of color blindness

Answer 7

Yes! I am a girl and I am colorblind. It is extremely rare but it is possible.

Answer 8

Yes.

You should be aware that this test depends very much on the color rendition of your display...if you are concerned, go to an eye doctor.

Answer 9

Yes. But color blind males outnumber colorblind females by about a 16 to one ratio. Only one in two hundred females are color blind.