pink or grey?
2007-02-05 00:22:24 · 21 answers · asked by indiebbz 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Mine is a rainbow
2007-02-05 00:25:01 · answer #1 · answered by Doodie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you are alive it's pink (from the blood flowing through it) but without fresh oxygenated blood it would be grey.
Don't be confused by the term "grey matter" as this just refers to the part of the brain that processes the information, not it's colour.
The other part is the "white matter" and this links the grey parts together with each other and with the other parts of the body.(it's a fatty protien called myelin)
2007-02-05 00:40:50 · answer #2 · answered by warrobcol 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
writing in support of the pink faction.
At least it's pink while it's alive. Maybe a pinkish white or whitish pink if you need to be more exact. It's the blood in the numerous blook vessels which make it appear pink.
When it's dead and thrown into formalin or alcohol, the pink turns to grey. The anatomists who named the grey matter were looking at dead brains in formalin.
So it's your decision if you want to have a grey or pink brain.
I prefer mine pink, but there must be a hell of a lot zombies out there...
2007-02-05 00:43:54 · answer #3 · answered by eintigerchen 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Greyish. The outside areas of the brain are more white, hence the term (white matter) due to the colour of the mylein sheaths surrounding the axons of the nerves. The insides can have a more grey tone (grey matter) due to the presence of the nerve cell bodies.
2007-02-05 00:32:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The color you "see" is the spectrum (color type) of light that is reflected off of an object you are looking at. These colors are picked up by structures called "cones" in the back of your eye, called the retina, and they travel to the back of your brain, called the posterior lobe, through two nerves called the optic nerves. The exact mechanics of translating light to information in your brain are not very well understood, but how you recognize a color is. Your posterior lobe connects with your frontal lobe (the part of the brain you "think" with) to connect the color to your memories of color. It will spur you to remember that you learned in school that this spectrum of light reflected off this object is blue, while this one reflects a different spectrum is red. And thus you can identify what colors you are observing. Hope that's not too confusing!
2016-05-24 17:47:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grey matter - I learned that from Hercule Poirot.
2007-02-05 00:25:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
grey
2007-02-05 00:29:37 · answer #7 · answered by cliffjumpers57 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
pink
2007-02-05 00:25:18 · answer #8 · answered by Lucy M 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
grey i think -mind you covered in blood they'd be red/pink
2007-02-05 00:25:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
pink
2007-02-05 03:11:20 · answer #10 · answered by Krystle D 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋