PRESENTATION OUTLINE
About Color Blindness
Color blindness is a disease with many different branches. It is also known as Daltonism for the first scientist who researched it in detail.
KINDS OF COLOR BLINDNESS
- No color
- Weak green
- No green
- Weak red
- No red
Statistics
8% of men and 0.5% of women have color deficiencies. The reason men are more prone to color blindness is that men have 1 X chromosome, Wo if they have color blindness, it's always there. Women have 2 X chromosomes, so if 1 is colorblind, the other will cover it up.
Location
As I said earlier, color blindness has different branches. Reg green color blindness and complete blue color blindness are located on the X chromosome. Blue yellow color blindness and full red color blindness are located on chromosome 7.
Inheritance and symptoms
Color blindness is a hereditary disease. It is passed down through generations. There is no treatment for color blindness, but some people wear colored lenses to get a feeling of what the color they are missing is.
Other facts
Color blindness is a recessive trait. Color blindness is not based off of the environment, but it is seen more in males.
Bonus
Color blindness is a disability, but it also has a few good points to it. First of all, the saying "be colorblind rascist" has come up. It means that we should be accepting of everyone no matter their color. Also, most colorblind people won't seem colorblind at first. Unless the are fully colorblind, they will have learned that gray usually means it is the color they can't see, so they will call it by it's name.
