Colour blindness is a type X-linked recessive genetic disorder, which results in decreased ability to discriminate between colours.
There are three types of colour blindness, they are: Red-green colour blindness, blue-yellow colour blindness and complete colour blindness or monochromacy.
Males are more prone to this disease as they inherit only one copy of the X chromosome.
Females can be affected by this disease only if they receive a pair of defective genes.
In order for a female to be colour blind, her mother has to be a carrier of the defective gene and father has to be colour blind.