Rods

Rods look like...well...rods. Rods out number cones about 10:1. The rods are what interperate black, white, and shades of gray in dim light. In all the rod cells there is a pumping of sodium that is stoped when there isn't enough lite and the cell stops working very well.
Their lamellae contains Rhodopsin: a red photosensitive pigment in the retinal rods that is important to vision in dim light that is also called visual purple. There are about 900 "free-foating" lamellae (also known as rod disks (only when in the rods of course)). The lamellae floats apart from each other and the outer segment membrane by cytoplasm. Unlike cones there lamellae is like thin circles.

The rod's nucleus is put off more in it's own little sement (compared to a cone). Past that there is a single rod spherule(also know as a end-bulb.) that connects to the rest the next things in the eye that have nothing to do with my project.

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