Color Blindness

Color blindness is a genetic disorder that causes people to not see as many shades of colors as usual. Inherited color vision deficiency cannot be treated, but if the color vision problems are caused by a broken cataract, the damaged cataract can be removed. This disease is unable to kill anyone. About 1/212 people in the United States exhibit the symptoms of color deficiency. Males are more vulnerable to the disease, because the disease is carried in the X chromosome. Males only have one X chromosome, while females have two. So if the disease is present in the X chromosome of the male, they automatically have color deficiency. However, for the female the disease must be present in both chromosomes, or else she will not have color deficiency. Even though it cannot kill people, i still feel sympathy for the people who have the worst form of this disease, where they can only see different shades of black and white. As noted above, color deficiency is a very intriguing disease.

Sources: www.webmd.com
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