Search results for "Photoreceptor cell" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • whip-like projection or appendage of a cell composed of microtubules ... that extends out from the surface of cell and is used for movement—in ...
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  • sensor has its own lens and photosensitive cell(s) and is oriented in a slightly ... the amount of light each photosensitive cell perceives, allowing the animal ...
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  • cleavage occurs in a syncytium, which is a cell with many nuclei resulting ... Each photoreceptor cell consists of two main sections, the cell body ...
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  • with disturbance in the pigmented cell layer under the macula. Advanced ... where the pigmented retinal epithelial (a cell layer housed in the back of ...
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  • the presence of a special type of excitable cell called a neuron (or "nerve ... nervous system is to send signals from one cell to others, or from one part ...
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  • The other type of light-sensitive cell in the eye, the rod, has a different response curve. In normal situations, when light is bright enough ...
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  • to excite a single molecule in a photoreceptor cell of an eye, thus contributing to vision. Apart from energy a photon also carries momentum and ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Optical grey squares orange brown.svg|thumb|200 px|An optical ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Philosophy [[Image:Hogarth-satire-on-false-pespective-1753.jpg|thumb|right ...
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