The most common kinds of color blindness are genetic meaning they re passed down from parents.
Color blindness most common.
And color vision may get worse as you get older often because of cataracts cloudy areas in the lens of the eye.
Types of color blindness red green color blindness.
Types of colour blindness trichromacy.
The most common symptom of color blindness is a change in your vision.
People with faulty trichromatic vision will be colour blind to some extent and are known as.
In this article we will explore what causes.
Color blindness can also happen because of damage to your eye or your brain.
This less common type of color blindness makes it hard to tell the difference between blue.
Among humans males are more likely to be color blind than females because the genes responsible for the most common forms of color blindness are on the x chromosome.
The most common type is red green color blindness which affects as many as 8 percent of caucasian males and up to 0 4 percent of caucasian females.
It happens when the green cone photopigment doesn t work as it should.
For example it may be difficult to distinguish between the red and green of a traffic light.
Normal colour vision uses all three types of light cones correctly and is known as trichromacy.