I am a single gene on an X-Chromosome, but around me are missing and damaged genes, and these genes are what produce photo pigments. Females are lucky because they have 2 X-Chromosomes whereas men only have 1. So now my host is 1 of millions of men to have color blindness. He has a pretty common blindness, red-green, more of a deficiency in all honesty. Red-green deficiency is a deficiency in the red-green cones which make certain shades of red or green to be identical to each other. I didn’t affect him too much but he struggled in differentiating color, whenever he used any medium of tools from crayons to pencil crayons unless there was a name telling him what color it was he would be lost and would have to ask other for help. Life was difficult sometimes but it wasn’t anything life-changing or serious. It is a common mutation and he has gotten used to it, and he is okay.

The only question I really needed to ask was “what is red-green color blindness.” I didn’t use any digital tools except for Microsoft word. The process I used was to look through and read through multiple sources, that was also how I verified information. I actually was going to do my story on Pulmonary Hypertension but I couldn’t find a lot of information so I changed my topic. I think if I used more time wisely I could have extended the story much longer.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness

https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/color-vision-deficiency#inheritance

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=7255