Question

How do the rods and cones in the eye differ?

A. Rods are very sensitive to light but do not distinguish colors.
B.Cones are less sensitive to light but can distinguish colors.
c. Rods are less sensitive to light but can distinguish colors. Cones are very sensitive to light but can't distinguish colors.
Rods are very sensitive to light and can distinguish colors. Cones are less sensitive to light and can't distinguish colors.

Answer 1

What do you think?

Answer 2

In the retina there are two types of what are called photo receptors. Only the human eye has both rods and cones because one of them processes color and the other is to recognize objects in the dark. Seeing objects in the dark is known as scotopic vision.

Scotopic vision uses the rods

Cones are for what is referred to as phototopic vision and this is your color vision.

You will find the cones in the central fovea you cannot find rods in the fovea. There are three types of cones these differ depending on wave lengths. They are the short-wavelength sensitive cones, middle wavelength sensitive cones, and long wavelength. Most of the time these will be abbreviated such as S-cone, M-cone, and L-cone. Notice that the rods only have one type of pigment this is why color cannot be picked up.

When there is only one pigment it is referred to as achromatic.
When there is three pigments it is chromatic.

Light and wavelength levels that require both of these are mesopic.