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Originally Posted by torch of war
Colorblind only constitutes that you can't distinguish between, say, red and pink, or blue and green.
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No. Colorblindness is when a mutation in a person's retina makes colors of opposite light spectrums to be picked up as the same. There are only two types of hereditary colorblind people: the common red and green, and the very rare blue and orange. The yellow and purple has come up, but is not hereditary. These types of color blindness effect only the Y chromosome, meaning it effects only men. The interesting thing is that you can only pass the gene to the opposite of sex. So if a colorblind man has a boy and a girl, the boy will not have the gene but the girl will (even though she cannot be effected by it), and if that same girl has a boy and a girl then only the boy will carry the gene. He will also be colorblind. I am red/green, but I have memorized what the colors look like.
Black and white colorblindness is just no color being picked up at all, I have no idea what causes that.
There. You just had a rare anatomy and light-physics lesson, a gift to you from Supafly.
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