Can women be color blind?
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Of course, they are just less susceptable to it, because they need a color blind gene from both parents for them to be color blind. If you still have any more questions, you should consult a Punett square.
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well, i am not sure if you can really invent this....but i think it would be a great idea...and i am sure it would take alot of research to figure out. my fiance is color blind, and therefore can not ever become a pilot in the army because of it. The estimation is that 1/2 the male population is color blind. I just cant imagine life without being able to see all the extravagant colors there are out there. so my invention would be some sort of color blind glasses.....that would interrupt or block certain colors so that the brain can see the other colors. like i said, it would take extensive research, but i think it wuold be a great opportunity for some people like my fiance who really wants to be a pilot but is not allowed because of his color blindness.
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Here the woman is a carrier of both haemophilia and colorblindness, but she is normal.So her possibilities of children with the colorblind man will be a normal daughter, a colorblind daughter, a haemophiliac son and a color blind son. So the statment as i worked it out maybe correct and not wrong.
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There are many types of color blindness. The most common variety are hereditary (genetic) photoreceptor disorders, but it is also possible to acquire color blindness through damage to the retina, optic nerve, or higher brain areas. Higher brain areas implicated in color processing include the parvocellular pathway of the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus, and visual area V4 of the visual cortex. Acquired color blindness is generally unlike the more typical genetic disorders. For example, it is possible to acquire color blindness only in a portion of the visual field but maintain normal color vision elsewhere. Some forms of acquired color blindness are reversible. Transient color blindness also occurs (very rarely) in the aura of some migraine sufferers.
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I think that blind people would have their own ideas of what things 'look like' based on the things that are explained to them.  but while you cant explain color necessarily to a blind person, other things you can, and sound helps too. some blind people have very blurred vision and are still able to make shapes out. i believe that based on what they imagine things to be, thats what they dream. maybe just mostly shapes. just as we dont know what (a) god looks like, we all imagine and dream up something we belive him/her/it to look like, even though there is societal influence on the image in question. i think its somewhat ignorant to think that blind people dream in black and sound...
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Color blindness, or color vision deficiency, in humans is the inability to perceive differences between some or all colors that other people can distinguish. It is most often of genetic nature, but may also occur because of eye, nerve, or brain damage, or due to exposure to certain chemicals. The English chemist John Dalton in 1794 published the first scientific paper on the subject, "Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours", after the realization of his own color blindness; because of Dalton's work, the condition is sometimes called Daltonism, although this term is now used for a type of color blindness called deuteranopia (see below).\n\nColor blindness is usually classed as a disability; however, in select situations color blind people have advantages over people with normal color vision. Color blind hunters are better at picking out prey against a confusing background, and the military have found that color blind soldiers can sometimes see through camouflage that fools everyone else. Monochromats may have a minor advantage in dark vision, but only in the first five minutes of dark adaptation.
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Theoretically, the answer is no; all people do not see the same shade and intensity of color.  Color vision occurs as a result of specialized photo-receptors in our eye.  The number of these receptors can differ from person to person, and as a result, some people may be more sensitive to certain colors than others.  A simple way to test this would be to take freshly isolated retinas from various individuals (ie: laboratory animals) such that the photoreceptors (rods and cones) are still intact and expose the retinas to lights of different wavelengths (ie: colors) and intensities while simultaneously recording the neuronal output generated in response to the lights.  I haven't done such an experiment myself, but it is very logical to assume that no two individuals would respond the same way to the lights, since perception of the light stimulus depends on the frequency and duration of the activation of the receptor neuron as well as the number of receptor neurons activated and their distribution in the retina.
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Assuming they are completely blind, it's like having no eyes at all, in which case they would "see" nothingness.  Blackness would indicate an ability for your eyes to pick up at least some form of light, and completely blind people can't pick up any forms of light at all.
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because it's a recessive sex linked gene carried on the x chromosome.  therefore, since men are XY, if the mother passes down the gene on her X chromosome, he will have colorblindness.  if the mom passes it on to a daughter, the father, who also contributes an X, will most likely have the dominant, normal sighted gene on it and the color blindness won't present itself.
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Yes it is testable. And there are colorblind people who do not see some colors at all. Other than that there are lots of variation on how well each person can detect different variations of a color. Woman generally can detect slight changes in a color better than me. ( this is proven not a generalization). Best way to answer your question is by comparing it to singing. There are mute people who can not sing. Everyone else can sing but lots of variation in how well. Same with color recognition.
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Color blindness affects about 8 percent of men, and approximately 0.5 percent of women. \n\nCheck out this link, it will tell you if you have colorblindness or not, and some more info about it:\nhttp://channels.netscape.com/atplay/colorblind.jsp
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No. Some people are color blind, meaning they see only black/white. Some people are blind, meaning they don't see anything at all. Some are synesthesic, seeing random colors/shapes for letters...etc.
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Totally blind from birth have no idea what colors are.  As you they dream what they know.  People that loose their sight later will dream in color because they have seen color.  It is very difficult for the seeing to understand those that do not.
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D. color blindness\n     That's kind of a trick question. When I looked at it, I thought "this can't be color blindness, because that's a failure to see much of a difference between mainly red and green." But in reality, that is what it is. You not only fail to see red but also green. So the answer is indeed D.
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only if your black or blind
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Probably very high in men, very very low in women because it is carried on the Y chromosome.  \n\nFor a woman to be colored blinded, she has to have an extra chromosome (XXY) which isnt very common.  \n\nNow this is what I remember from 5th grade science. I am no scientist or doctor.  lol
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No. \nHumans see the color purple as stimulation of red AND blue receptor (Purple is not a primary color). \nAnyway, whatever colorblindness you have, it never would affect only one color, because the ratio of the excitation of two or more different types of photoreceptors contributes to most colors (You have only three different kinds of color receptors, but you can see millions of colors). \nSo deficiency in one photoreceptor type affects not only its primary color but many others too. \n\nA nice webpage for a simulation of how color blind people see colors are \nhttp://www.vischeck.com/\nhttp://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/html/color_blind/text.html#see