Imagine a Species That Was Born with Only 2 Cones

question 171

Multiple Choice

Imagine a species that was born with only 2 cones in the retina sensitive to colour-one in the red range and one in the blue range. We would predict that colour vision in this species would be most similar to a

• A) tricolour-blind person.
• B) monochromat.
• C) trichromat.
• D) dichromat.
• E) single process system.