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"Color Blindness"
Title: "Color Blindness"
Category: Science & Technology / Biology
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"Color Blindness"
Color blindness is the inability to distinguish particular colors. It is generally an inherited
trait, but can result from a chemical imbalance or eye injury.
There are three primary colors. They are red, blue, and yellow. All other colors are the
results of different combinations of primary colors. Special visual cells, called cones, are respon-
sible for our ability to see color. People with normal vision have three different types of cones,
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through green tinted glasses, your green vision was normal, but all others colors were off.
Bibliography
Adolf Fick, Color Vision, 1961 ed., s.v. 'Color Blindness,' 40-46.
David Marr, Vision (New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1982), 252-264.
Mark Fineman, The Inquisitive Eye (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981), 3-12.
Ramesh C. Tripathi, Brenda J. Tripathi, World Book Encyclopedia, 1993 ed., s.v. 'Color Blind-
ness,' 827.
Gypsytech Vision Site (Internet). 'http://www.gypsytech.com/clrbld.htm', as of December 2,
1996.
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