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Color vision characteristic of organism with four types of color receptors. Birds and insects are commonly tetrachromats and some human woman have tetrachromatic vision, seeing more colors, 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.