The Blind See The Color Blue
How Do Blind Worms See the Color Blue?
In an article from The New York Times, an author named Veronique Greenwood
The main researcher in this working theory was Dipon Ghosh, a graduate student from Yale University in Cellular and Molecular Physiology. One of his thoughts that lead him to think that worms could see blue was that pseudomonas aeruginosa is a bright blue shade. A way that he proved this hypothesis was that he conducted an experiment at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology using worms, patches of pseudomonas aeruginosa, and lights on a light switch. When he turned off the lights and placed the worms on the pseudomonas aeruginosa patches. Once he did this he could sense his hypothesis had some traction because when the lights were off the worm's reaction time to move away from the toxic microbes was much slower.
As more research was conducted Dipon Ghosh found out that the lifespan of a worm can be affected by light and that is where the next hypothesis formed. As the article continues and more experiments are performed researchers realized that worms do not move away because pseudomonas aeruginosa is toxic, they move away because of the bright light that it omits. The article "How Do Blind Worms See the Color Blue" was very interesting and something I have never heard about, when I saw it I had to jump on the opportunity to read it.
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