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 * __Symptoms__**
 * Not able to tell colors apart
 * May not be able to see patterns
 * Very rarely cannot see colors at all

__**Causes**__
 * Damage to one of three cone cells
 * Missing of the cone cells
 * Inherited

__**Information on Color Blindness**__

The information that I learned helped me with my project a lot. The project was very hard to find information for because color blindness is not a very well-known topic. If people knew what I have learned about color blindness in the past two weeks, they would understand how color blindness works. Most people think that color blindness is when a person cannot see colors at all. In some rare cases that is what color blindness is, but usually it is not. Color blindness is when a person cannot tell colors apart from other colors. These colors also have to be in a certain pattern and in a different brightnesses.

Color blindness is caused when the cone cells in the eyes are either damaged or completely missing. People, who aren’t color blind, have three different cone cells in their eyes that sort out the three primary colors, red, yellow and blue. People, who are color blind, either have nonfunctional cones cells, the cone cells were damaged in some way, or the person is completely missing the cone cells. The use of some prescription and illegal drugs can cause temporary or permanent color blindness.


 * __Treatment for Coloblindness__**

Studies done by the University of Florida and University of Washington have proven that there is a cure for color blindness for monkeys called Gene Therapy. Scientists think, in future reference, that they will be able to use this on humans, but so far they haven't been able to make it safe. Other than that, color blindness that is inherited, in not curable.

__**[|Link to WebMD]**__

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Bailey, Gretchyn, and Marilyn Haddrill. "Color Blindness." N.p., 2011. Web. 1 Mar 2011.

"Color Blindness." IMG Health. IMG Health Publications, 2011. Web. 3 Mar 2011

Shook, Robert. Intervew. 3/5/2011. Print. 5 Mar 2011.