BISC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Kinocilium, Sensory Neuron, Cell Membrane

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Stimulus perceptions are constructions formed in the brain and do not exist outside it. Others are specialized (epithelial) cells that regulate neurons (b) Hair cells as mechanoreceptors in vertebrate hearing and balance respond to pressure (e. g. sound waves) Captures sound and transmits pressure waves to fluid-filled cochlea transduce sound waves (or other fluid waves) to electrical signals. Bending of kinocilium and stereocilia causes physical distortion of the plasma membrane opening or closing ion channels. Changes in ion flow with opening/closing ion channels causes membrane to depolarize or hyperpolarize (with bending in different directions) Planarians (flatworms) have a pair of ocelli in their head with photoreceptors that detect light and dark (move away from light) but do not form images. Insects have compound eyes with several thousand ommatidia very effective at detecting movement; many can see uv wavelengths. The vertebrate eye functions to focus light onto sensory rod/cone cells (photoreceptors) in the retina. Opens/closes ion channels and changes membrane (receptor) potential.

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