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Encyclopedia > Monochromacy
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A monochromat is an organism that is truly color blind. ...

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Monochromacy - Wikivisual (705 words)
The normal explanation of monochromacy is that the organism's retina contains only a single kind of light receptor cell, or at least that only one kind is active at any particular level of illumination.
Rod monochromacy, or maskun, is the more common of the two.
Monochromacy has been subdivided into typical (rod monochromacy) and atypical forms.Alpern M. "What is it that confines in a world without color?" Invest Ophthalmol.
Monochromacy – Complete Color Blindness (885 words)
Occurrences are estimated to be between 1 : 30,000 and 1 : 50,000.
There are reports about very different forms of blue-cone monochromacy and it is sometimes not easy to differentiate it from rod monochromacy.
The academical background and many references on all types of monochromacy can be found in Opsin genes, cone photopigments, color vision, and color blindness by Sharpe et al.
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