General Animal Physiology Course Syllabus
Biology 436
 
Lecture 10:  Sensory Physiology - Photoreception


Sherwood- Chapter 6

Objective:  To understand that all photoreceptors have in common a photoexcitable pigment associated with a receptor membrane.

1.  Light
2.  Vertebrate photoreceptors
        a.  phototransduction
        b.  accommodation
3.  Invertebrate photoreceptors

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