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When Peter moves his arm, that yellow spot you see there is the interface to the functioning of Peter's mind taking place.

So, what if you had a yellow pencil sitting on your desk?

The pencil looks yellow because it reflects yellow light more than it reflects the other colors.

High-frequency light waves look violet, low-frequency light waves look red, and in-between frequencies look yellow, green, orange, and so on.

As you can see, the region where the red and green lights overlap is yellow.

So, in this yellow looking region, two different kinds of light waves are present: one with a red frequency, and one with a green frequency.

There is no yellow light present at all.

So, how come this region, where the red and green lights mix, looks yellow to us?

For example, suppose that yellow light, that is real yellow light, with a yellow frequency, is shining on your eye.

You don't have a cone specifically for detecting yellow, but yellow is kind of close to green and also kind of close to red, so both the red and green cones get activated, and each sends a signal to your brain saying so.

The point is, your brain receives the same signal, regardless of whether you see light that has the yellow frequency or light that is a mixture of the green and red frequencies.

That's why, for light, red plus green equals yellow.

You look down and see a yellow pencil lying on your desk.

And, as a bonus, understanding that light acts like a wave leads naturally to an explanation of what color is and why that pencil looks yellow.

In one of most classic examples, Mendel combined a purebred yellow-seeded plant with a purebred green-seeded plant, and he got only yellow seeds.

And in this second generation, he got both yellow and green seeds, which meant the green trait had been hidden by the dominant yellow.

This combination of alleles is known as genotype and its result, being yellow or green, is called phenotype.

Let's write the dominant yellow allele as an uppercase "Y" and the recessive green allele as a lowercase "y."

In Mendel's first generation, the yellow homozygous pea mom will give each pea kid a yellow-dominant allele, and the green homozygous pea dad will give a green-recessive allele.

So all the pea kids will be yellow heterozygous.

For example, besides being yellow or green, peas may be round or wrinkled.

So we could have all these possible combinations: round yellow peas, round green peas, wrinkled yellow peas, wrinkled green peas.

The two yellow lines in this drawing are the same size, but the upper one seems bigger because we interpret it as receding farther into the horizon.

Mosquitos can transmit everything from malaria to yellow fever to West Nile virus to dengue.

The yellow beetle larvae are native to America and easy to farm.

For example, oxygen gas snatched up some of the dark red light, and sodium grabbed two bands of yellow.

Now that the only unassigned wall color is yellow, this must be applied to the first house, where clue seven says the Dunhill smoker lives.

I'm talking about cowboy boots and Caterpillar yellow toy trucks and bug jars, the whole nine yards.

These neurons encode various characteristics of the object: spiky, fruit, brown, green, and yellow.

Humanae is a pursuit to highlight our true colors, rather than the untrue white, red, black or yellow associated with race.

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