<P> Most organisms with colour vision are able to detect ultraviolet light . This high energy light can be damaging to receptor cells . With a few exceptions (snakes, placental mammals), most organisms avoid these effects by having absorbent oil droplets around their cone cells . The alternative, developed by organisms that had lost these oil droplets in the course of evolution, is to make the lens impervious to UV light--this precludes the possibility of any UV light being detected, as it does not even reach the retina . </P> <P> The retina contains two major types of light - sensitive photoreceptor cells used for vision: the rods and the cones . </P> <P> Rods cannot distinguish colours, but are responsible for low - light (scotopic) monochrome (black - and - white) vision; they work well in dim light as they contain a pigment, rhodopsin (visual purple), which is sensitive at low light intensity, but saturates at higher (photopic) intensities . Rods are distributed throughout the retina but there are none at the fovea and none at the blind spot . Rod density is greater in the peripheral retina than in the central retina . </P> <P> Cones are responsible for colour vision . They require brighter light to function than rods require . In humans, there are three types of cones, maximally sensitive to long - wavelength, medium - wavelength, and short - wavelength light (often referred to as red, green, and blue, respectively, though the sensitivity peaks are not actually at these colours). The colour seen is the combined effect of stimuli to, and responses from, these three types of cone cells . Cones are mostly concentrated in and near the fovea . Only a few are present at the sides of the retina . Objects are seen most sharply in focus when their images fall on the fovea, as when one looks at an object directly . Cone cells and rods are connected through intermediate cells in the retina to nerve fibres of the optic nerve . When rods and cones are stimulated by light, they connect through adjoining cells within the retina to send an electrical signal to the optic nerve fibres . The optic nerves send off impulses through these fibres to the brain . </P>

At which part of eyes there is no sense of vision