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Some women are described as tetrachromats because they may possess

  • A.two functioning eyes with different sensitivities
  • B.an unusually high density of rods in the retina
  • C.no macular pigment in the central retina at all
  • D.four distinct cone photopigments rather than three

Answer: D

Correct answer: four distinct cone photopigments rather than three

A woman carrying different L or M gene variants on her two X chromosomes may express both, giving four cone types instead of three. Whether this yields genuinely finer discrimination depends on the visual system making use of the extra signal, and the evidence suggests only a minority of such carriers do.

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