Is it generally a girl or a boy who suffers from genetic colour blindness?
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In girl with X* X case only X chromosome is functional so she does not suffer from colour blindness.
This is only in genetic color blindness but it isn't in other causes of the disease. You would have specified in the question.
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Can you specify the other causes please. Colour blindness is only an X-linked inheritance disease AFAIK.
Question is not good.
Imagine a case where boy suffers from colour blindness. As color blindness is linked with X chromosome the X chromosome of boy is affected. Now imagine a girl who has family history of colour blindness she will have the sex chromosome as X X X indicates affected chromosome. Now suppose they have an offspring. The punnet square will be
boy. X* Y girl X* X
now the offspring' are with traits X X colour blind girl X*Y colour blind boy
so there is a chance of color blind girl also.
I am sorry to know that the question is not good :-( Te question was who is more likely when the are attacked. On being attacked, the girl has a chance of being a carrier in place of affected, but if a boy is attacked, he would definitely catch colour blindness. Hope you get my point,
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Please edit it. Got your point
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Done!!!!!!!!!!
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@Ashish Menon – Thanks for that quick editing. Awaiting for next good question by you.
I am colorblind and I find this offensive
Its a biology question, so.... I am sorry. Do you want me to delete this question, it was not intended.
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A boy has one X-chromosome and one Y-chromosome, while a girl has two X- chromosomes. Now, colour blindness being an X-linked inheritance disease attacks the X-chromosome. So, there is 5 0 % probability for a girl to be affected, because she can be carrier if only one X-chromosome is affected. But if a male is attacked, then there is almost 1 0 0 % probabilty for him to be affected, because his only X-chromosome gets affected.
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