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Minimum energy for vision Unspecified Table - link N/A 111991 Hecht S, Shlaer S, Pirenne...
Diameter of HL-60 (blood) cell Human Homo sapiens 10 μm 108896 http://www.invitroge...
Field of vision of flying birds Birds 340 ° 105418 Nagy M, Akos Z, Biro D...
Doubling times under high light (HL) and low light (LL) Green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii HL 3.5±0.0 hours: LL 8.7±0.2 hours 116796 Britta Förster, Peter...
Time it would take the ~5,400 current mammal species to evolve enough new history to restore net phylogenetic diversity (PD) to preanthropogenic levels Biosphere ~500,000 years 117257 Davis M, Faurby S, Svenning...
Time during which the pupil is occluded and vision thereby interrupted during a normal blink Human Homo sapiens 100-150 msec 113196 Volkmann FC. Human visual...
Average time between blinks Human Homo sapiens 2.8 sec 100705 http://faculty.washi...
Neutrophil cell diameter Human Homo sapiens 8.3 (±0.6 Table - link) µm 104669 Rosenbluth MJ, Lam WA...
Amount of photons necessary to excite a rod Human Homo sapiens 1 unitless 100709 Brain Facts and Figures...
Amount of photons necessary to excite a cone Human Homo sapiens 100 unitless 100710 Brain Facts and Figures...
Leaf biomass and photosynthetic characterization acclimated to different light levels Thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana Table - link N/A 113456 Ma F, Jazmin LJ, Young JD...
Average duration of a single eye blink Human Homo sapiens 0.1-0.4 sec 100706 http://faculty.washi...
Increase in PolyP3 levels 2 hours after starvation Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae 400 Fold 103430 Vagabov VM, Trilisenko LV...
Ratio between carboxylation and oxygenation (Vc/Vo) activities of RuBisCO Thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana in Low Light (LL) plants 3.5:1 in high light acclimated (HL-ACC) plants 2.3:1 unitless 113455 Ma F, Jazmin LJ, Young JD...
Metabolite pool sizes Thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana Table - link N/A 112798 Ma F, Jazmin LJ, Young JD...
Time for amplitude of cone early receptor potential to recover after illumination (half-life) Frog Rana pipiens 5 - 6 min 111400 Saari JC. Biochemistry...
Visual angle of familiar objects Human Homo sapiens Sun or moon 0.5°: Thumbnail (at arm's length) 1.5°: Fist (at arm's length) 8°-10° N/A 105350 John Moran eye center...
Distance between eyes Human Homo sapiens 6 cm 105348 John Moran eye center...
Pupil diameter Human Homo sapiens 1-8 mm 105349 John Moran eye center...
Swimming speed Ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia 140 to 470 μm/sec 108087 Bonini NM, Nelson DL....