Comments on: The Biology behind Red-Green Color Blindness

By: Myrtonos

Myrtonos — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:46:32 +0000

Okay, what if say a red weak or green week man coceives children with a blue weak woman?
I know that if say a green weak man such as Mr. Tomoiag? were to conceive children with the daugther of a red weak man, their daugters could very well have both normal and anomoulous red cones and thus see *more* colours than normal.

By: Myrtonos

Myrtonos — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:25:39 +0000

But there are surely cases of this happeing. You say none of them will be colorblind but I wonder if in fact it might result in better than average color vision.

By: Daniel Flück

Daniel Flück — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:54:54 +0000

Myrtonos, nice question. None of them will be colorblind. – But this is only working in an ideal world. So we actually don’t really know. – And the genetics I leave to you.

By: Myrtonos

Myrtonos — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 11:24:54 +0000

Here is a question, what if a red-green colorblind man conveives children with a blue-yellow colorblind woman?

By: Daniel Flück

Daniel Flück — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:13:14 +0000

Em, just some thoughts about your daughter:
- this is still a very young age to tell if someone is colorblind or not,
- different severity occur, so maybe there is someone colorblind you don’t know about,
- color blindness can be inherited down through many generations,
- genetics is not always a straight calculation. There are many other factors who can influence it.
So, please be patient – and don’t worry.
- Daniel