Boys or Girls?

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Is it generally a girl or a boy who suffers from genetic colour blindness?

Girl Boy

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Ashish Menon
Apr 23, 2016

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 50 % 50\% 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 100 % 100\% probabilty for him to be affected, because his only X-chromosome gets affected.

For those who finished seeing the solution, please help in this discussion.

In girl with X* X case only X chromosome is functional so she does not suffer from colour blindness.

Aditya Oke - 5 years, 1 month ago

This is only in genetic color blindness but it isn't in other causes of the disease. You would have specified in the question.

Riccardo Vitto - 5 years, 1 month ago

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Can you specify the other causes please. Colour blindness is only an X-linked inheritance disease AFAIK.

Ashish Menon - 5 years, 1 month ago
Aditya Oke
Apr 24, 2016

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,

Ashish Menon - 5 years, 1 month ago

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Please edit it. Got your point

Aditya Oke - 5 years, 1 month ago

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Done!!!!!!!!!!

Ashish Menon - 5 years, 1 month ago

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@Ashish Menon Thanks for that quick editing. Awaiting for next good question by you.

Aditya Oke - 5 years, 1 month ago

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@Aditya Oke Thanks and sorry.

Ashish Menon - 5 years, 1 month ago
Lumpiger Affe
Apr 24, 2016

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.

Ashish Menon - 5 years, 1 month ago

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