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Uncommon card · Science
Cone cell, an Uncommon card
Cone cells or cones are photoreceptor cells in the retina of the vertebrate eye.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 51
- Power
- 113
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 84,000
Power 113 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Cone cell quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cone cell card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ of the responses of different cone cell classes enables color vision.
Answer
comparison. The comparison of the responses of different cone cell classes enables color vision. From the Cone cell article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Buoyancy. Buoyancy 140,000 · British thermal unit 110,000 · Cone cell 84,000 · André-Marie Ampère 66,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Cones are active in daylight conditions and enable photopic vision, as opposed to rod cells, which are active in dim light and enable scotopic vision.
- Most vertebrates have several classes of cones, each sensitive to a different part of the visible spectrum of light.
- The comparison of the responses of different cone cell classes enables color vision.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cone cell article was read about 84,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 51: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cone cell (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : BenRG, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
