Is colour vision possible with only rods and blue-sensitive cones?

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At night all cats are grey, but with the approach of dawn they take on colour. By starlight, a single class of photoreceptors, the rods, function, whereas by daylight, three classes, the blue-, green- and red-sensitive cones, are active and provide colour vision. Only by comparing the rates of quantal absorption in more than one photoreceptor class is colour vision possible. Although the comparisons generally...

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