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How do we distinguish light from dark and one colour from another?
The answer lies in the tiny light-sensitive cells of our retinas — the rods and cones. We have three different types of cones which respond to blue, green and red light, and faults with any of these cone cells can lead to different kinds of colour blindness.
The gene responsible for colour blindness is found on the X chromosome which, as Dr Simon Watt explains, is the reason that so many more men are colour blind than women.
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I guess this is goodbye. 🙁
I will miss this series
It makes sense now
sibilance
What about Tetrachromacy?
My sister is partially colorblind.
Very well explained. And I now want ice cream.
It might have been nice to cut out the very high treble end so there wouldn't be so much whistle-sound going on
Since women have two copies of certain rod genes, there are some cases of women who have tetrachromatic vision, which is sort of the opposite of color blindness. They can see 4 dimensions of color instead of 3.
Nutella ice cream?!??? 😍
I'm colorblind
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I would like to red my color blindness any ones help me?
here's a question : does anyone find any mistakes in this video?
Is that red or pink?
The green-blindness and blue-blindness visuals are mixed up. Blue-Yellow blindness would appear more red and the green blindness would appear more like the red blindness shown first.
this video made me hungry
No mention of the Enchroma glasses that help ppl see colors.?
“Less than 1/100 women have it”
So you’re telling me that half of a person can be colour blind?😂
My best friend (female) is a bit colour blind. I remember we figured it out when thrift shopping once when we were teens. It explains why she kept getting in trouble at school for her clothes not adhering to the dress code — when it comes to darker colours, she really can't tell the difference.
U didn’t even eat it
I love how this video explains it. I knew some of this before but it was really enjoyable watching.
this is another baffling thing about the human body, why are our genes for colour vision on the X chromosome? why not on one of the others? It's more evidence against Intelligent Design; surely an Intelligent designer would have put the genes on one of the other chromosomes. Infact, why don't we have 4 sex chromosomes as a backup?