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  2. Double cone (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Some double cones have members with same opsin (twin cones), while others have members with different cone types (members have a different spectral sensitivity). [3] Behavioural research on the reef dwelling triggerfish Rhinecanthus aculeatus has provided evidence that individual members of double cones can act as independent channels of colour ...

  3. Double cone - Wikipedia

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    Double cone may refer to: Double cone (geometry) Double cone (biology) The Remarkables Mountain range, in New Zealand; Ventana Double Cone, ...

  4. Vision in fish - Wikipedia

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    Most fish have double cones, a pair of cone cells joined to each other. Each member of the double cone may have a different peak absorbance, and behavioural evidence supports the idea that each type of individual cone in a double cone can provide separate information (i.e. the signal from individual members of the double cone are not ...

  5. Tetrachromacy - Wikipedia

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    The four pigments in a bird's cone cells (in this example, estrildid finches) extend the range of color vision into the ultraviolet. [1]Tetrachromacy (from 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.

  6. Cone - Wikipedia

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    The definition of a cone may be extended to higher dimensions; see convex cone. In this case, one says that a convex set C in the real vector space R n {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{n}} is a cone (with apex at the origin) if for every vector x in C and every nonnegative real number a , the vector ax is in C . [ 2 ]

  7. Cone cell - Wikipedia

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    Cone cells are somewhat shorter than rods, but wider and tapered, and are much less numerous than rods in most parts of the retina, but greatly outnumber rods in the fovea. Structurally, cone cells have a cone -like shape at one end where a pigment filters incoming light, giving them their different response curves.

  8. Conic section - Wikipedia

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    A conic is the curve obtained as the intersection of a plane, called the cutting plane, with the surface of a double cone (a cone with two nappes).It is usually assumed that the cone is a right circular cone for the purpose of easy description, but this is not required; any double cone with some circular cross-section will suffice.

  9. Hyperbola - Wikipedia

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    The hyperbola is one of the three kinds of conic section, formed by the intersection of a plane and a double cone. (The other conic sections are the parabola and the ellipse. A circle is a special case of an ellipse.) If the plane intersects both halves of the double cone but does not pass through the apex of the cones, then the conic is a ...