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Thank you here's Your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by riddles about color For example what's black and white

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and red all over zebra in a quentin tarantino film

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Right here's our question The cells in the back of

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the eye that only see in black and white are

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called what And here a potential answers are going to

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run right Well in order to narrow it down let's

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take a look at what each part of the eye

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does let's start with e the retinal ganglion cells it

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looks like a made up phrase from a sci fi

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film the return of the retinal ganglion but well it's

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not that exciting These cells are responsible for transferring information

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from the eye to the brain However since we're talking

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about cells that see in some sense of the word

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at least this answer doesn't fit it's not really doing

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the seeing so much as receiving information from one source

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and passing it along to another so in cross out

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eat these retinal ganglion cells form the bulk of the

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optic nerves along with the glial cells that regulate protect

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and support the nerves as they do their information Sending

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thing though is out as well It's like i let's

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move on to see the bow via well the phobia

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is a small pit near the center of the retina

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That's responsible for sharp central vision providing us with direct

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line of sight used in tasks like reading and driving

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Think of it is you're focused vision or in other

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words the number one thing you should be thankful for

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your ability to reach the top of the scoreboards in

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college duty But does it only see in black and

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white know why Because this central pitting your eyes made

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up of cones cones process color as well as visual

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acuity so it looks like both cnn air out which

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leaves us with b rods cones and rods are the

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two types of cells that cover the eye and initially

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received or see the light waves coming in The rods

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handle the black and white which helps us see in

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the dark so it looks like he's our answer But

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don't worry rods Some of the best things only come

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in black and white I'm gonna find these guys and

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