ICSE Class X Biology 2016 Solved Papers

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Give scientific reasons for the following statements :
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Question : 69
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Colour blindness is more common in men than in women.
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Colour blindness is an X-linked inheritence. Women have two X-chromosomes, so even when one-X-chromosome carry colourblindness, the other X-chromosome over comes the abnormal trait. Whereas men have only one X-chromosome. So when it is affected the man becomes a colour blindness.
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