Color Blindness
...quarters of an image and the brain combines the information so that the whole image can be seen. Color blindness is a hereditary condition that is usually present at birth. It develops when a mistake occurs during the development of the egg and the sperm because of red and green receptor genes. Colorblindness is linked to the X-chromosome and is passed from mother to son. The condition is a malfunction of the retina, which converts light energy into electrical energy. Colorblindness is a disease that anyone may get. It doesn’t matter what ethnic group you are. When you are born you will immediately have this disease and have it for the rest of your life. You are more likely to have it if you are a male . The statistics are 8% of males and only .5% of females will get the diseases. If is found that 1 of 12 have a color defect. Females may be a carrier, but never have the disease and they will most likely pass it to a son over a daughter. Symptoms that color blindness has is mostly not being able to see certain colors or certain shades of colors. The most common defect is not being able to see reds and greens and it is very rare that a human will only be able to see gray. If a person is not able to see any colors their cones do not function at all. Defects in color vision occur when 1or more of 3-cone cells color coding structure fails to function properly. Most people that have a color defect have trouble telling colors apart. On rare occasions colorblind people can see details that would escape the normal eye. There are 5 types of color blindness. The first is protanomaly which is when red, yellow, orange, green and violet appear as blue. Next is deutanomaly. It is when green is a weak color and when you have trouble see difference between red, orange, yellow and green because they appear more red. Dichromasy is when the person can tell no difference between red, orange, yellow and green. I...