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What Do Rod Cells Do?
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 Have you ever been on a scavenger hunt looking for the different objects? In your eye there is a rod cell whose job it is to look for color and light and send that message to the brain. The brain reacts by sending waves of messages to your eyes. But there are diseases that only allow you to see some of what you are looking at and not the whole image.

Rod cells, or rods, are photoreceptor cells in the retina of the eye that can function in less intense light than the other type of visual photoreceptor, cone cells. Rods are concentrated at the outer edges of the retina and are used in peripheral vision. Rods and Cones. The retina contains two types of photoreceptors, rods and cones. The rods are more numerous, some 120 million, and are more sensitive than the cones. However, they are not sensitive to color

This is a pitcher of a human rod cell this is the cell in the back or the retina that picks up light and color is toward the back of the retina the nucleus is toward the bottom of the rod. and in the middle you can see the mitochondria. At the top you can see lines that kinda look like a later but that is the rhodopsin pigment shelfs.

Rod cells are the most important cell in the world because we would be blind without them and that would be harmful for the human race. They are important because of how they send messages in electronic waves to the brain to show what you are seeing. if you what more information on this cell watch this video. media type="youtube" key="gvozcv8pS3c" width="560" height="315"