Sentences with phrase «familiar rods and cones»

As it turns out, the missing link was a previously unknown type of light - sensitive cell in the human eye, distinct from the familiar rods and cones that are responsible, respectively, for night and color vision.

At the top of the image are the retina's photoreceptor cells (in gray)-- the familiar rods and cones — that capture photons of light and translates them into electrical currents.