Can you be color blind in only one eye?

Question

Can you be color blind in only one eye??? And if you were would your good eye fill in the color for the object???

Answer 1

i'm sure its possible

Answer 2

Color blindness is a result of a defect in the cone receptors in the retinas of the eyes. Since it is genetic both eyes are affected.

If it were possible(maybe a scifi story) your blind eye would probably take over-sympathetic blindness- similar to amblyobia(lazy eye) where the good eye is patched to strengthen it.

Color blindness affects a significant number of people, although exact proportions vary among groups. In Australia, for example, it occurs in about 8 percent of males and only about 0.4 percent of females. Isolated communities with a restricted gene pool sometimes produce high proportions of color blindness, including the less usual types. Examples include rural Finland, Hungary, and some of the Scottish islands. In the United States, about 7 percent of the male population - or 21 million men - and 0.4 percent of the female population either cannot distinguish red from green, or see red and green differently (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2006). It has been found that more than 95 percent of all variations in human color vision involve the red and green receptors in male eyes. It is very rare for males or females to be "blind" to the blue end of the spectrum.

Answer 3

Yes, you can be color blind in one eye. Each eye has its own "system", and each one can function differently than the other one, such as worse vision in one eye, near sided and far sided, one lazy eye, and color blindness in one eye. The eye that functions properly will see color correctly but you would still see distorted color in the bad one, but here is an interesting fact, women can NOT be color blind, they can only carry the "trate" to pass on to their sons...... strange.