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Question
Differentiate Between Haemophilia and Colour blindness.
Solution
| Haemophilia | Colour blindness |
| Haemophilia is an X-linked inheritance. It is a recessive character in which individuals suffering from disease lack of factor responsible for clotting of blood. | In this inheritance, the gene of red, green colour blindness is located. on X-chromosome so the person is unable to differentiate between the red and green colour. |
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