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What Is an Action Potential and How Is It Generated

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What is an action potential and how is it generated?


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Trichromatic Theory

A theory of color vision that proposes the human eye has three types of receptors with differing sensitivities to different light wavelengths, corresponding to red, green, and blue.

Occipital Lobe

The region of the brain located at the back of the head, responsible for processing visual information.

Retina

The light-sensitive layer at the back of the eye that converts light into neural signals sent to the brain.

Retina

A light-sensitive layer at the back of the eye that contains cells responsible for converting light into neural signals for vision.

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