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Cones.

Humans and other primates have 3 types of cones: red, green, & blue.

Nonprimate mammals have 2 types of cones: yellow & blue.

Birds and reptiles have 4 types of cones: red, green, blue, & UV.

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Why do human beings see color?

There are certain cells in your eye retina that detect colour, called cone cells.


How do you see colour?

When the light reflects on an object into your eye you see the objects colour. When all of the light reflects into your eye you see the colour as white. So if some of the light is absorbed into the object you see it as it being a certain colour. There are cone cells in the eye that detect color (the other type of cells is rod cells, which are better at distinguishing light/darkness and patterns). Different colors of light excite different cone cells and cone cell clusters and these cells transmit signals to your brain, which interprets these signals as color vision.


How do the eye see?

The eyes "don't" see colour. The "brain" sees colour, the "eyes" are just "lenses", hun. k. the eyes have two types of nerve cells. rhods and cones. Rhods help see in dim light and cones help in identifing colors and help see in bright light. these 2 cells are called photoreceptor cells. they carry this info from the eye through the optic nerve to the brain. the answer to your question, cones are nerve cells in the eye that help distinguish colors. :)


What part of eye detects colour?

cone cells


How can you see light sound and color?

you can see light and colour due to the specific cells on the retina of the eye. these cells are called rods and cones. Rod cells allow you to see in the dark but do not allow you to see colour hence why in the dark everything is black and white. the cone cells allow you to see colour by picking up different wavelengths of light. the amount of these cone cells picking up a certain wavelength for example a lot pick up a blue wavelength, then the more of the cone cells detect this, the darker the blue colour appears.


Do you see differently through different eye colors?

do people with different eye colour see differently


What are the cells in the eye that allow us to see color called?

The cells in the eye that allow us to see color are called cones.


What are cones made of?

answ2. Cones. Assuming you mean the optical colour sensors, these come in three colour sensitivities, (just known as Short, Medium, and Long) and these give us colour vision. You have about 5 million cone cells in each eye, and about 90 million rod cells.The rod cells see only light, not colour, but are about 100 times more sensitive than the cones. This is why at night, you have inferior colour vision.Your cone cells are grouped in the centre of your vision, the fovea, and you'll easily be able to see things at night, "out of the side of your eye" by looking slightly away from your subject of interest. In fact, you may even see a 'hazy region' in the middle of the field of view where there appears to be no definition. This is because the (inactive) cone cells dominate in this region.Most animals have no colour vision, for it is of no advantage to them. Birds, bees and butterflies have excellent colour vision (Up to five colour sensors) for their ability to distinguish fruit ripeness is vital to them.


Why could scientists not see cells before the microscope?

The cells are too small for scientists to see with the naked eye. For some perspective on how small cells are, the dot above the letter 'i' is about the size of fifty cells. Scientists could not see regular cells with the eye alone.


What colour is a guinea pigs eye when it can't see?

well you need to wait until they can see


Why you see different color?

Because cone cells on retina let you see colour.


Can you see cells with your eyes?

Not with the naked eye, but with a microscope.