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Explain Color Blindness and how it's inherited through genes.

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Colour blindness is a common hereditary (inherited) condition which means it is usually passed down from your parents.

Red/green colour blindness is passed from mother to son on the 23rd chromosome, which is known as the sex chromosome because it also determines sex.

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Color blindness is a common hereditary (inherited) condition which means it is usually passed down from your parents. Red/green colour blindness is passed from mother to son on the 23rd chromosome, which is known as the sex chromosome because it also determines sex.

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