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Yes in fact colorblindness is related to genetics.
Colorblindness is a sex (gender) linked disorder. In order to find out how colorblindness is inherited you must first know a little bit about sex linked genes.
Every person has 2 sets of gene for each trait (one set comes from your mom and one set comes from your dad) except when it comes down to genes found on your 22 chromosome ( or sex chromosomes)
The X sex chromosome is bigger than the Y chromosome and thus holds a few extra genes on it. In females because they have two X chromosomes they still have two of every gene. However, in males they only have one X and therefore they only have one set of the genes that are only found on the X chromosome and not the Y.
Colorblindness is one of these genes. It is also a recessive gene found on the X chromosome. Because females have two X's they are not likely to become colorblind. This is because in most cases a female will inherit the gene for colorblindness in one X and a gene for normal vision on the other X. But because males only have one X, if they have the gene for colorblindness they do not have another gene to dominate this one and therefore become colorblind.
In order for a male to become colorblind his mother should be either colorblind or a carrier for colorblindness, as a male gets his X chromosome from his mother.
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