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What Is the Response of the Photoreceptor in the Center

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What is the response of the photoreceptor in the center of the stimulus? Does it depolarize, hyperpolarize, or stay the same?
B. What is the response of the bipolar cell? Does it depolarize, hyperpolarize, or stay the same? Explain.
C. What type of bipolar cell is illustrated? Is it ON-center/OFF-surround, OFF-center/ON-surround, ON-center/ON-surround, or OFF-center/OFF-surround?
D. What type of neurotransmitter receptor is on the bipolar cell?
E. How does activation of this neurotransmitter receptor result in the graded potential response in this cell with the center light?

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When light hits a photoreceptor it hyper...

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