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1.  Purple is a color sensation produced by simultaneous stimulation of blue and red color receptors.  If a colorblind person lacks blue-absorbing pigments, then the color purple would appear to be the same as the color:
Green
Red
Blue
Yellow
2.  If a man lacked red-absorbing pigments (see Figure 1), he would be unable to discriminate between:
Red and Blue
Green and Purple
Red and Green
Blue and Purple