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What happens if a baby inherits two recessive genes for colour blindness?
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What is colour blindness recessive?
Yes, Color Blindness is recessive, Not dominant. :)
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.
What is a sex linked disorder caused by a recessive allele on the x chromosomes?
colour blindness
Why are men most likely to be color blind than women?
Men are not just 'likely' to be colour blind, they are the 'only ones' who can suffer from colour blindness. This is because colour blindness is cused by an x-linked recessive gene, that is it can occur only if a person carries 2 of these x-linked recessive traits. Now, females have one X and one Y chromosome,so in no way, they can have 2 X chromosomes.(exception-Klinefelter's syndrome, where thery is XXY trisomy) Only men can have 2 X-chromosomes. Hence, females can only carry the colour blindness gene, while men can 'suffer' from colour blindness.
Is colorblindness a dominant or recessive trait?
Color blindness is an inherited trait that can be passed on through reproduction but it has some peculiarities. It is recessive and not very prevalent in the gene pool. Because of this, color blindness does not appear very often in the population. In addition, it is a sex-linked gene on the X chromosome. Thus males only have one gene to express color vision. If it happens to be the recessive allele, then males are color blind. Females, on the other hand, must have both alleles recessive in order to be color blind.source: ciese.org/curriculum/genproj/activity35.html
What happens to a persons health if they have colorblindness?
The only health downside to colour-blindness is the fact that you can't see colours.
How does linkage affect the inheritance of traits?
As in sex linkage?Well if a trait is sex linked then one gender may be more likely to have that trait than the other. For example, colour blindness is a trait that is linked to the X chromosome. So males are more likely to be colour blind than females because the colour blindness gene is recessive and males only have 1 X chromosome where as females have 2 X chromosomes. Though females may be carriers of the colour blindness chromosome, therefore potentially passing it on to their children (son or daughter).
Why is colour blindness more common in males than in females?
Color blindness is a sex-linked trait that is caused by a recessive gene. Sex-linked characteristics occur more often in males because they only have one X chromosome while females have two X chromosomes. The X chromosome holds much more genetic information than the Y chromosome. So, while females need to have two recessive genes to become color blind, males only need one recessive gene to be affected. Therefore, males have a greater chance of inheriting color blindness.
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.
