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... light , see PHOTOSYNTHESIS and BEHAVIOUR , ANIMAL : Stereotyped Response and Photoperiodism . ) Light , the name given to the mediator of the sensation of sight in higher animals , including man , and the equivalent of this sensation in ...
... light , see PHOTOSYNTHESIS and BEHAVIOUR , ANIMAL : Stereotyped Response and Photoperiodism . ) Light , the name given to the mediator of the sensation of sight in higher animals , including man , and the equivalent of this sensation in ...
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... light ; in the lateral eye the retina is inverted , so that the ends of the outer segments face away from the light and toward the back of the eye . The vertebrate retina is literally a part of the brain . The photoreceptor cells are ...
... light ; in the lateral eye the retina is inverted , so that the ends of the outer segments face away from the light and toward the back of the eye . The vertebrate retina is literally a part of the brain . The photoreceptor cells are ...
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... light guide within which is the visual pigment , which absorbs light . In the light - adapted condition , the pigment migrates from the receptor cell body to surround the rhabdom completely . Similar cell pigment migrations occur within ...
... light guide within which is the visual pigment , which absorbs light . In the light - adapted condition , the pigment migrates from the receptor cell body to surround the rhabdom completely . Similar cell pigment migrations occur within ...
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