20 years old male failed to get admission into a medical course.
His medical reports
were all normal except for a visual defect. He was diagnosed with an inherited disorder.
What could be the MODE of his inheritance? X-linked recessive could be the mode of his inheritance. Congenital disorder of colour sense is a matter of genetics and is inherited recessively. Congenital disorders of colour sense are fixed on the X chromosome. Men have only one X chromosome and so it is not possible to compensate its eventual malfunction with the genetic information from other chromosome as it is the case for women. MENTION who is the transmitter and WHY? The mother is the transmitter because the mutant gene is on the X chromosome and there wont be a father-to-son transmission based on the Mendelians inheritance laws.
What are the receptors affected? Colour blindness can occur when one or more of the colour cone cells (red cones, blue cones or green cones) are absent, non-functioning, or detect a different colour than normal. Severe colour blindness occurs when all three cone cells are absent, and mild colour blindness occurs when all three cone cells are present, but one cone cell functions abnormally to detect a different colour than normal.
ENLIST any two types of this disorder. Protanopia-red and Deuteranopia-green.