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1
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What are the sensory neurons in the skin called?

A

Somatic Sensations

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Which pain receptors are stimulated when you immediately hurt yourself?

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Fast pain receptors

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Which pain receptors send pain signals days or weeks after you are hurt?

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Slow pain receptors

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What are stretch receptors associated with?

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joints, muscles, and tendons

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What are the 5 special senses?

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Hearing, balance, taste, smell, vision

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6
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Our sense of hearing helps us distinguish between sounds of different…?

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amplitude and tone

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7
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What is amplitude and tone?

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amplitude is loudness and tone is frequency

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Which part of the ear do sound waves travel down the auditory canal, and hit the ear drum causing it to vibrate?

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outer ear

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In the middle ear, vibrations of the tympanic membrane cause vibrations in 3 small bones called?

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malleus(hammer), incus (anvil), and stapes(stirrup)

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What does the stapes vibrate against?

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the oval window

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Where is all the vibrational energy that hits the tympanic membrane focused on?

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the oval window

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12
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What does the eustachian tubes connect?

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middle ear and pharynx

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13
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What opens the eustachian tubes?

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yawning or chewing

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14
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What can cause deafness?

A

middle ear infections

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15
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In the inner ear, the hair cell mechanoreceptors within the cochlea convert sound vibrations into what?

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nervous impulses

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16
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What are the three fluid filled canals within cochlea?

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Vestibular canal
Cochlear duct
tympanic canal

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17
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Where is the organ of corti?

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within the cochlear duct

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18
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What does the organ of corti consist of?

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tectorial membrane
hair cells
basilar membrane
auditory nerves

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19
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The pressure waves created in oval window in fluid of what canal to canal?

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vestibular canal and travel around to tympanic canal.

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20
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in 2nd step of inner ear, the waves are formed across which membrane?

A

basilar membrane

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What does the vibration in the basilar membrane cause?

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sound vibration frequency

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22
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What cells are part of the basilar membrane?

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hair cells

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23
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The tips of the hair brush against which membrane?

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tectorial membrane

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24
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Does the tectorial membrane vibrate?

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NO

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25
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What do the hair cells stimulate when neurotransmitters are released?

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sensory neurons

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26
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What happens in the last step in the inner ear?

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brain interprets neural impulses as sound

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27
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The parts of the basilar membrane have same or different natural resonances?

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different

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28
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Basilar membrane near oval window has low or high frequency?

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High

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29
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Low frequency noise is when basilar membrane is near the oval window or far from oval window?

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far

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30
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basilar membrane far from oval window is more?

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flexible and wider

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31
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basilar membrane near oval window is?

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stiff and narrow

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32
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The brain interprets neural signals arriving from different parts of the basilar membrane as what?

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different tones (notes)

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33
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More vigorous vibrations of basilar membrane means?

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louder noises ,more energy, more hair cells release neurotransmitter more frequently, and more stimulation of neurons

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34
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Less vigorous vibrations of basilar membrane means?

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softer noises, less energy, less hair cells release neurotransmitters less frequently, and less stimulation of neurons

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35
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What is caused with sound vibrations do not get to the inner ear?

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conduction deafness

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36
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What causes eardrum/oval window to be ruptured and bones in ear to not move properly?

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conduction deafness

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37
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What do hearing aids do?

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cause vibrations in skull making vibrations in cochlea then hearing

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38
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What id damaged in nerve deafness?

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cochlear nerves and brain

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39
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What happens when hairs in cochlea are lost?

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partial deafness

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40
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Can minor damage be repaired?

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YES

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41
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Hair cells die= minor or major damage?

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major

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42
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When you hear sounds that do not really exist and the hairs have been damaged and some are bent, what is this called?

A

ringing ears after loud environment

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43
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When do the muscles pull bones away from eardrum/ oval window?

A

ear bone reflex

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44
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What does the vestibular canal consist of?

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3 semicircular canals and vestibule

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45
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Semicircular canals are for sensing what?

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sensing rotational movement

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46
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Vestibule is for sensing what?

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sensing head position, gravity, and acceleration/deceleration

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47
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What type of movement is detected in semicircular canals in 3 planes?

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3-D movement detected

48
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Cupula with hair cells present at base (ampulla) of each canal. True or False?

A

True

49
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Vestibule is oriented horizantally or vertically or both?

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both

50
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In vestibule senses, hairs are embedded in what material and what position?

A

gelatinous material on bottom

51
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In vestibule senses, otoliths are embedded in what material and what position?

A

gelatinous material on top

52
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When does gelatinous move first and otoliths have inertia and respond slower?

A

acceleration

53
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Deceleration has inertia or momentum?

A

momentum

54
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Does visual input play a role in maintaining balance?

A

YES

55
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Signals for maintaining balance come from which stretch receptors?

A

joint, muscle, and tendon stretch receptors

56
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Specialized structures in inner ear: ?

A

vestibule

57
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When messages are conflicting, what can we get?

A

motion sickness

58
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How many taste cells and how many supporting cells?

A

25 and 25

59
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Taste buds on large —– of tongue.

A

Papillae

60
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——- on taste cells have receptor proteins to bind to certain chemicals that later stimulate sensory neurons.

A

Hairs

61
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What are taste buds?

A

chemoreceptors that bind with dissolved substances

62
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What are the 5 taste categories?

A

sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami (broth)

63
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Salt responds to what ions?

A

sodium

64
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Sour responds to what ions?

A

hydrogen

65
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Which taste category responds to amino acids?

A

umami

66
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Which taste category responds to various chemicals?

A

bitter

67
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Which taste category are we most sensitive to and at which part of the tongue?

A

Bitter and at the back of the tongue

68
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Smell is ——- receptor cell.

A

olfactory

69
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Each olfactory receptor cell produces a protein that can bind with —— molecules.

A

odorant

70
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How many different types of olfactory receptor cells do humans have?

A

over 300

71
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More molecules binding= more neurons firing more frequently=?

A

stronger smell

72
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Can a single odorant molecule lead to a neuron being stimulated?

A

YES

73
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What we commonly refer to as how food tastes depends on two senses. What are they? and why?

A

taste and smell

Because chewed food releases chemicals that contact olfactory receptors via pharynx.

74
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Eyes focus light onto specialized ——— cells of the retina?

A

photoreceptor

75
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What are the photoreceptor cells of the retina?

A

rod and cone cells

76
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Photoreceptors convert what type of energy to nerve impulses that are interpreted by the brain?

A

light energy

77
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What is sclera?

A

whites of eyes

78
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Where does most bending of light before light hits the retina occur at?

A

cornea

79
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What is the irregularities in cornea or lens called?

A

Astigmatism

80
Q

What fixes nearsightnedness and astigmatism by burning away part of cornea?

A

LASIK laser surgery

81
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Iris is a colored —— that controls the amount of light entering the eye.

A

muscle

82
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What is the opening that allows light in called?

A

pupil

83
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When is the pupil larger?

A

in dark

84
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When is the pupil smaller?

A

in bright sun

85
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What is made of layers of transparent proteins?

A

lens

86
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What adjusts shape for close or far away objects?

A

lens

87
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When does lens get thicker and ciliary muscles contract?

A

close objects

88
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When does lens get thinner and ciliary muscles relax?

A

far away objects

89
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Farsighted have eyes longer or shorter than normal?

A

shorter

90
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Prolonged close up work can cause nearsightedness or farsightedness?

A

nearsightedness

91
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Nearsightedness or farsightedness is caused by improper eye shape?

A

farsightedness

92
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At what age does the lens start to lose its flexibility (focusing becomes harder)?

A

about 40 years old

93
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At what age does the lens lose all its flexibility?

A

at age 70 years old

94
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When proteins of the lens progressively lose their transparency

A

cataracts

95
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What can cause cataracts?

A

aging

96
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Does the retina contain photoreceptor cells?

A

yes

97
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What colors are cones most sensitive to?

A

yellow
green
blue/violet

98
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What has high amounts of cones but no rods?

A

fovea in retina

99
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What happens in blind spot?

A

optic nerve goes to brain

100
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Many rod cells/ ganglion cell gives what vision?

A

blurrier vision

101
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Fewer cones cells/ ganglion cells give what vision?

A

clearer vision

102
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As little as how many cone cells/ganglion cells give the clearest vision?

A

5

103
Q

Which cells are more sensitive to light? and by how many times?

A

rod cells by 300 times

104
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Which cells only are sensitive to faint light?

A

rods

105
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When does the brain interpret ratios of the 3 cone types?

A

mixed colors

106
Q

Which disorder affecting the retina is due to blow to head/eye and is an emergency?

A

Retinal Detachment

107
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Which disorder affecting the retina is associated with certain cone cells present in low amounts or are missing completely?

A

color blindness

108
Q

Which eye disorder causes blurred vision, stars, and lack of peripheral vision results?

A

retinal detachment

109
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Which eye disorder is associated with fluid in aqueous humor that no longer drains properly and causes pressure on capillaries supplying retina?

A

Glaucoma

110
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Which eye disorder is a sex linked genetic disorder?

A

color blindess

111
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Which eye disorder can cause retinal and nerve cell death?

A

Glaucoma

112
Q

Binocular vision helps us determine how close or far away sth is?

A

far

113
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When does each eye receive slightly different images?

A

Binocular vision

114
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At the side of the head, sound waves hit one ear then the next or both at the same time/

A

one ear then the next

115
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Above and behind the head, the sound waves hit one ear then the next or both at the same time?

A

both at the same time

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