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Posted by : Mary Cleia
Monday, February 9, 2015
When light hits an object say, a banana the object absorbs some of the light and reflects the rest of it
When you look at a banana, the wavelengths of reflected light determine what color you see.The light waves reflect off the banana's peel and hit the light-sensitive retina at the back of your eye That's where cones come in.
Cones are one type of photoreceptor, the tiny cells in the retina that respond to light Most of us have 6 to 7 million cones, and almost all of them are concentrated on a 0.3 millimeter spot on the retina called the fovea centralis.