TYPE OF MUTATION?

• Red/Green: weakening ability to discriminate b/w green and red
• Blue/Yellow: weakening ability b/w blue and yellow
• Total: inability to distinguish b/w all colors
• three different main forms: red (protan), green (deutan), and blue (tritan) disorders.

NUMBER OF CHROMOSOMES

• Defective X chromosome
• Disease is passed down from mother to son on 23rd chromosome
• Same number of chromosomes

EFFECTS?

• Disadvantages? Cooking, driving, creating art
• Cannot tell differences b/w lights
• How well is this meat cooked? Can't tell

TREATMENTS?

• Genetic color blindness can't be treated
• Bad cells could be fixed/replaced? But not likely
• Still trying to figure out if we can fix the cell

TEST FOR DISORDERS

• Ishihara Color Test
• Plates 1 – 17 contain a number/ plates 18 – 24 contain one or two wiggly lines.
• To pass each test subject must identify correct number/trace the wiggly lines.

LIFE EXPECTANCY

INHERITANCE PATTERN

• Mother is a carrier 50% chance of giving it to son
• Mostly in males, girls can get it if dad has it/mom is a carrier
• Also 50% chance of not being a carrier
• In the dominant gene? You will get it
• Recessive? Won't get it(other healthy chromosome)

They look like normal eyes, can't really tell the difference

CITED WORKS

• http://www.colour-blindness.com, Word Press
• http://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/inherited-colour-visio...
• http://colorvisiontesting.com
• http://www.color-blindness.com/2010/03/02/what-is-color-blindness/ Color Blind Essential
• ^by Karen Levine/Tom van Beveren from Colblinder