When a multipotent stem cell divides asymmetrically, its maturing daughter cell often goes through a transition stage as a progenitor or transit-amplifying cell.

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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)