The genome is the complete set of genes of an organism.

The transcriptome is the complete set of genes expressed under particular conditions.

The proteome is the complete set of polypeptides encoded by the whole genome or produced in any particular cell or tissue

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Inputs from eye to CNS: 

• Input from the rods 

• Input from the cones

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Duplicity Theory 

The existence of these two kinds of input, each working maximally under different conditions of illumination

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Axons of retinal ganglion cells 

Received and transduced information and carried to the CNS

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Blind spot 

There are no visual receptors over the optic disk.

 

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The photosensitive pigment in the rods is called rhodopsin (visual purple).

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Rhodopsin is comprised of: 

  Retinal (an aldehyde of vitamin A)

  Opsin protein (GPCR)