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Is colour blindness inherited from mother or father?


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Colour blindness:

  1. The condition of color blindness is inherited from both parents.
  2. The inability to see colors normally is known as color blindness.
  3. It is a recessive sex-related disease.
  4. Genes for red-green color blindness are present on X chromosomes.
  5. Men only inherit color blindness from their mothers since they only have one X chromosome, which is inherited from them.
  6. Females have two copies of the X chromosome, which they receive from both parents.

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