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Why is the frequency of red-green colour blindness is many times

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Why is the frequency of red-green colour blindness ismany times higher in males than that in the females?

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For becoming colorblind, the female must have the allele for it in both her X-chromosomes; but males develop colourblindness when their sole x-chromosome has the allele for it.

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