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Home » Educator Resources » Seminars with Teaching Tools » The Vertebrate Retina, Photoreceptors, and Color Vision

The Vertebrate Retina, Photoreceptors, and Color Vision

Why can you see in both bright sunlight and dim moonlight? Why do some species and some people lack color vision? Jeremy Nathans explains how you see.

With: Jeremy Nathans

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Photoreceptors and Image Processing I Photoreceptors and Image Processing I
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Molecular mechanisms of vision, human color vision, light-sensing receptors, light absorption 35:58 Hi-Res

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Photoreceptors and Image Processing II Photoreceptors and Image Processing II
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Human Color Vision and its Variations Human Color Vision and its Variations
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Photoreceptors, human color vision, common inherited anomalies of color vision 44:44 Hi-Res

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The Evolution of Trichromatic Color Vision The Evolution of Trichromatic Color Vision
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Trichromatic color vision in humans and primates 44:07 Hi-Res

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences under Grant No. 2122350 and 1 R25 GM139147. Any opinion, finding, conclusion, or recommendation expressed in these videos are solely those of the speakers and do not necessarily represent the views of the Science Communication Lab/iBiology, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, or other Science Communication Lab funders.

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