Term 1

Biology
Performance Task:
Red-Green Color
Blindness
Done By: AbdelRahman, Haneen,
Wedad, Saeed
What’s in this Presentation

01 What is Color Blindness?

02 Types of Color Blindness

03 What causes color blindness

What’s in this presentation

Why does color blindness

04
happen?

In Detail: Red-Green Color

05
blindness

In Detail: Red-Green color

06
blindness
What’s in this presentation

07 Solution to color blindness

08 Citations
What is color blindness?

Color Blindness is a mostly genetic disability that limits a

person's perception of color (color deficiency)

Color Blindness often occurs when a person cannot

distinguish between certain colors. This usually happens
for 3 main colors: red, blue, green
 Types of color blindness
Red-green
● Deuteranomaly: the most
common type of red green, it
makes green more red
● Protanomaly: Makes red look
more green and less bright.
● Protanopia: makes you
unable to tell the difference
between red and green
● Deuteranopia: makes you
unable to tell the difference
between red and green
Blue-Yellow Complete
● Tritanomaly: makes it hard ● Complete color
to tell the difference blindness
between blue and green (monochromacy)
and yellow and red means you can’t see
color at all
● Tritanopia: makes you
unable to tell the
difference between blue
and green, purple and red,
and yellow and pink
 What causes color blindness?

Color blindness can

also happen because
of damage to your
eye or your brain

Genetics
The most common kinds of
color blindness are genetic,
meaning they're passed down
from parents.
Aging
According to the new
research by Marilyn E.
Schneck color vision may
get worse as you get
Injury older — often because of
cataracts (cloudy areas
in the lens of the eye)
Why does color blindness happen?

Rods:
These cells detect only light
and dark. They are sensitive
to low light
Cones:
These cells detect color and
are situated near the middle
of they eye. There are three
types of cones that see
different colors: red, green.

● Color blindness can happen when one or more of the color cone cells
are absent, not working, or detect a different color than normal:

● Severe color blindness: occurs when all three cone cells are absent.

● Mild color blindness: happens when all three cone cells are present but
one cone cell does not work right. It detects a different color than
normal.
In Detail:
Red-Green Color Blindness
- R-G Color Blindness is passed down in the X
chromosome.
- It is more common in males as they have one X
chromosome. So if one allele has the gene for
R-G Color Blindness, then the person
automatically has this type of color blindness.
- Females on the other hand, have 2 X
chromosomes. So for the gene to be
expressed, both alleles have to have the gene
for R-G Color Blindness.
 X Chromosome

In Detail:
Red-Green Color Blindness

● Genetic Mutations in OPN1LW or OPN1MW

genes cause R-G color blindness. These
mutations lead to an absence of L or M
cones or to the production of abnormal
opsin pigments. This affects the way that
person perceives shades of red and
green.

A strand of 15,000 base pairs

making up the OPN1LW gene.
 Solutions to color blindness

While there are available treatments for

colorblindness most people who suffer
from this genetic disability choose to
wear glasses that make it that they can
see colors as its not invasive or surgical
at all.
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 Resources
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (n.d.). Types of color blindness.
National Eye Institute. Retrieved November 13, 2022, from
https://www.nei.nih.gov/learn-about-eye-health/eye-conditions-and-diseases/color
-blindness/types-color-blindness

ScienceDaily. (2014, February 20). Color vision problems become more common with
age, study shows. ScienceDaily. Retrieved November 13, 2022, from
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140220102614.htm

U.S. National Library of Medicine. (n.d.). Color vision deficiency: Medlineplus genetics.
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