Yes. But color blind males outnumber colorblind females by about a 16 to one ratio. Only one in two hundred females are color blind.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Can_a_female_be_color_blind
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Color blindness is an X-linked trait. That means it is carried in the X chromosome, which differentiates whether a baby will be a girl or a boy. Women have two X chromosomes (XX), and men have an XY combination. If a woman is a carrier for ...
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Color blindness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Color blindness , or colour blindness , a color vision deficiency, is the inability to perceive differences between some of the colors that others can distinguish. It is most often of genetic natur...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness
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Females have 2 X-chromosomes. Both X-chromosomes must carry the mutant allele for the females to be color blind. Red-green color blind females are homozygous for the recessive allele.
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www.biology.arizona.edu/human_bio/problem_sets/color_bl...
www.biology.arizona.edu/human_bio/problem_sets/color_blindness/intro.html
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(0.05 x 0.10 = 0.005). Five percent (0.05) of the population are color-blind males XoY (0.5 x 0.1 = 0.05). This is roughly equivalent to the percentages of color-blind females and males in the U.S. population...
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waynesword.palomar.edu/colorbl1.htm
waynesword.palomar.edu/colorbl1.htm
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Colorblindness explained + On-line tests, including testing children ... Color deficiency is rare in girls; The genes for color vision are on the X chromosome, and because females have 2 X chromosomes, if one is deficient, the other makes up for it.
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members.shaw.ca/hidden-talents/vision/color/colorblind1...
members.shaw.ca/hidden-talents/vision/color/colorblind1.html
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Those who are not color blind seem to have the misconception that color blindness means that a color blind person sees only in black and white or shades of gray. ... Since males have an X-Y pairing and females have X-X, color blindness can occur much more easily in males and is typically passed to them by their mothers.
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www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/aboutCB.asp
www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/aboutCB.asp
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Can a female get color-blindness from her father's side? My husband and all his brothers are color-blind. Is there a chance my daughter could be too? I don't know of any color-blindness in my side of the family. ... Are you color blind?;
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www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=80
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Shows how an app looks for a normal person, and how it looks for a color blind person. Quite neat. ... LoungeActx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Did anyone notice that the author states that females can be color blind in the first paragraph. Yet, the color blindness gene is on the Y chromosome which only males carry.
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digg.com/design/How_color_blind_people_see_your_ULS
digg.com/design/How_color_blind_people_see_your_ULS
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