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Color vision characteristic of organisms with four types of color receptors. Birds and insects are commonly tetrachromats and some human woman have tetrachromatic vision due to the phenomenon of [[X-inactivation]].
Color vision characteristic of organisms with four types of color receptors. Birds, fish and insects are commonly tetrachromats and some human woman have tetrachromatic vision due to [[X-inactivation]].

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Tetrachromacy [r]: Color vision characteristic of organisms with four types of color receptors. Birds, fish and insects are commonly tetrachromats and some human woman have tetrachromatic vision due to X-inactivation.