Essay On Colorblindness

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Colorblindness Colorblindness affects more people than you might think, around 1 in every 12 males have color blindness (CBA). Although it is more common for boys to have color blindness girls can also get it, about 1 in 200 girls will have colorblindness (CBA). Look around you; chances are someone you know has colorblindness. There is nothing these people can do about it; it is a genetic disease. More men have this disease because of the way it is passed down by the chromosomes. The X chromosome is the cause of colorblindness. Since boys’ chromosomes are XY’s they only need one affected X to be affected. Since girls have two X’s and colorblindness is a recessive trait, they would need to have two affected X chromosomes, where the boy only needs one to be affected. As a girl you can be a carrier and pass colorblindness down, this means you have an both a recessive and dominant colorblindness chromosome (Xx). If you are affected both X’s are recessive (xx) and if you are colorblindness free you have two dominants X’s (XX). As a boy it is much easier to get colorblindness and that is why the ratio of boys who have it is much higher than the girls who are affected. Boys can either be affected of not affected; they cannot be carriers like girls. If a boy is colorblindness free he has a dominant X and normal Y (Xy). If he is affected he had a recessive X and normal Y (xy). The only way a boy can pass down the trait if he has it and his mate is a carrier or also has the disease. Although there is no way to treat colorblindness the people who have it have never known any different; it is not that big of a deal to them. I’m sure that people with colorblindness wonder what it’s like to see color the way other people see it, but t... ... middle of paper ... ...eyes were dissected (Colblindor). Even though we know what causes colorblindness, there are no cures for it. The only thing that could solve colorblindness is making sure this disease is not passed down anymore than it has already been passed down. I do not think that we need to go to such drastic measures as to stop people from having kids just to stop a hereditary disease from being passed down. This disease is not worth all that trouble and sacrifice, these people have never known any different and it is not that big of a deal. At first it may seem like a big deal realizing that they can not see colors the way we can, but that is jus because we have had the chance to see the colors the way they were meant to be seen. It would be really hard on someone to go colorblind after birth, but since this disease is started from birth, they do not know any different.

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