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Is colour blindness an infecious disease like the common cold or influenza?
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No. It is usually a genetic disease that is caused by the genes which were inherited.
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How does colour blindness affect your chromosomes?
Lamprey Disease
How did john Dalton get eye disease?
John Dalton did not "get eye disease". He had, from birth, a vision abnormality that led to partial colour blindness -- red-green blindness. When, at the end of the 18th century, he recognised this deficiency, and wrote a scholarly paper which first described this problem, colour blindness became widely known as "daltonism".
Is color blindness like an infectious disease like the common cold or influenza?
Color blindness is caused by a genetic defect, not by an infection by a pathogen. There are several diseases that affects the eye that are caused by a pathogen, but none of these are color blindness, rather a simple infection. no in fact it is very rare. Colour blindness is a self-contained problem of the person who has the colour blindnesss. It is usually a genetic problem or just something that went haywire during fetal development. Most people who are colour blind don't know they have colour blindness until an adult in their life figures it out. It is more a illness with children, it is genetic disorder. hay are u doing the young geneticist card coz I'm stuck too not at all. no. No it isn't as color blindness is from genetic traits. Therefore, color blindness is 99% not infectious
Is colour blindness dominant or regressive?
Regressive.
If you have dichromatic vision what do you suffer from?
colour blindness
Is colour blindness a hereditary trait?
yes
How do you cure color blindness in humans?
you cannot cure Colour blindness is hereditary, it's in your genes.
Does blindness affect a certain age group?
No colour blindness does not affect a certain age group it can affect anyone but usually you are born with colour blindness its not like usually as you grow older you go blind its completely different
A man with colour blindness will see red as?
yellow
Is the color blindness gene also present on the Y chromosome?
No - the colour blindness gene is only found on the X chromosome.
How is it corrected colour blindness?
There is no cure for color blindness. It is a disorder that is passed from mother to son in fetal development and is genetic in nature.
How is colour blindness passed on?
Color blindness is not passed on. Another answer Men are usually the carriers of the recessive gene, yes, it can be passed on.
