I'm doing a science project in Biology, and i haven't been able to find what causes Achromatosia. I know that it affects the Cone cells in the eye (the cells responsible for seeing in the day) and leave the Rod Cells (night vision) to produce sight. However, i would like to know more.
What causes it? I mean... do both parents have to have a resessive gene in order to pass it on? Is it a dominate gene? Which Enzym is missing in the Cone cell that leaves it with little/no function? Does it happen more often to a different race or gender? There are so many questions that i cannot find answers to.
What causes it? I mean... do both parents have to have a resessive gene in order to pass it on? Is it a dominate gene? Which Enzym is missing in the Cone cell that leaves it with little/no function? Does it happen more often to a different race or gender? There are so many questions that i cannot find answers to.
If you read the book, "The Island of the Colorblind" by Olver Sacks it will explain it all. It is an awesome book. He is a neurologist who wrote the book Awakenings - it was a movie.