Colour Blindness

Key Stage 4

Meaning

Colour blindness is an inherited disorder which causes the person to be unable to distinguish between green and red.

About Colour Blindness

Colour blindness is the result of a recessive allele on the X Chromosome.

References

AQA

Colour blindness, page 262, GCSE Biology; Student Book, Collins, AQA

Edexcel

Colour blindness, page 80, 113, GCSE Biology, CGP, Edexcel

Colour blindness, pages 30, 40, GCSE Biology; The Revision Guide, CGP, Edexcel