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Minor Note: Not Just Green

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	The first thing that jumped into my head was; who's asking the question, male or female?? as more men than women are likely to be colour blind. There's something in the back of my brain telling me people have more trouble with green than any other colour and this bit here sort of confirms that:[quote]Many forms of so-called colorblindness are really natural variations in the proteins. Just as some people have brown or blue eyes, different people have different pigments in their L- and M- cones. People's ability to discern colors varies with difference in the absorption maxima of the cones. Generally, the ability to discern reds and greens decreases when the absoprtion maxima of the cones is more similar. Altered sensitivity in one cone type is known as an anomalous trichromacy. This occurs when there is variation in the cone pigments, caused by a difference in their amino acid sequence. The human red and green color vision pigments are identical at all but 15 of their 364 amino acids, and yet their absorption maxima differ by 31 nm. The spectral difference between these 2 pigments is determined by 7 and only 7 amino acid residues. Protans and deutans can be anomalous trichromats or dichromats. There are no S-cone anomalous trichromats, so tritans are always dichromats.[/quote] http://webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/2B.html There'll be a test later. =) ___________________________________________________________________________ "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it." Mark Twain Loading...
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