Sentences with phrase «more rods and cones»

The rainbow colors on the collar give songbirds — who have more rods and cones to see bright colors than humans do — enough time to recognize a predator and fly away.

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Melanopsin is a member of the opsin family, and is more closely related to photopigments in invertebrate visual cells than to pigments in vertebrate visual (rod and cone) cells.

The existence of rods, cones and melanin pigments in the eye suggests that retinomotor activity (light dependent vision seen in fish today: daylight vision by cones and twilight vision by the more sensitive rods) probably already existed 300 million years ago.

On the other hand, less mature cells have more self - renewal properties and possibly more potential to integrate and repair the eye's rods and cones.

I have had to make bagels, tortillas, sugar cones, powdered donuts (among many more) and next week I get to tackle pretzel rods!

Cones work in bright light and are more sensitive to colours, while rods are what enable us to see in dim light.

Compared to humans, dogs and cats have more rods and less cones.

The same ancestral autosomal recessive mutation for the progressive rod cone degeneration (prcd) form of progressive retinal atrophy (PRA) is found in the American Cocker Spaniel, American Eskimo Dog, Australian Cattle Dog, Australian Shepherd, Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Chinese Crested Dog, English Cocker Spaniel, Entelbucher Mountain Dog, Finnish Lapphund, Golden Retriever, Kuvasz, Labrador Retriever, Lapponian Herder, Norwegian Elkhound, Nova Scotia Duck Trolling Retriever, Poodle, Portuguese Water Dog, Silky Terrier, Spanish Water Dog, Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog Swedish Lapphund, and Yorkshire Terrier.3 This list continues to grow as more breeds are discovered with the same defective gene.

However unlike other forms of Day Blindness observed in other breeds, the DB / RD mutation causes a more complete retinal degeneration in the Standard Poodle and affected dogs eventually lose both cone and rod cell function resulting in vision loss under all lighting conditions.

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