tetrachromacy
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- color vision
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- has characteristic
- dimension
- facet of
- evolution of color vision
- found in taxon
- Homo sapiens
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- Tetrachromacy
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Physiology
- Humans
- Tetrachromacy in carriers of CVD
- Conditional tetrachromacy
- Blocked tetrachromacy
- Other animals
- Fish
- Birds
- Pentachromacy and greater
- See also
- References
- External links
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Tetrachromacy (from Ancient Greek tetra, meaning "four" and chroma, meaning "color") is the condition of possessing four independent channels for conveying color information, or possessing four types of cone cell in the eye. Organisms with tetrachromacy are called tetrachromats.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tetrachromacy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.