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Project Report
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Vedic Mathematics Submitted by :
Submitted to : Kshinit Rathore
Ms Nisha Mam
Class X Crystal
Structure and Function of the
Human Eye
Vertebrates have single-lens eyes

Fig. 49.9
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Parts of the Eye
• Sclera: a tough white layer of connective
tissue that covers all of the eyeball except
the cornea.
– Conjunctiva: external cover of the sclera
— keeps the eye moist.
• Cornea: transparent covering of the front of
the eye.
– Allows for the passage of light into the
eye and functions as a fixed lens.

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• Choroid: thin, pigmented layer lining the
interior surface of the sclera.
– Prevents light rays from scattering and
distorting the image.
– Anteriorly it forms the iris.
• The iris regulates the size of the pupil.
• Retina: lines the interior surface of the
choroid.
– Contains photoreceptors.
• Except at the optic disk (where the optic
nerve attaches).
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Focusing Light
• The lens and ciliary body divide the eye into
two cavities.

– The anterior cavity is filled with aqueous


humor produced by the ciliary body.

– The posterior cavity is filled with vitreous


humor.

– The lens, the aqueous humor, and the


vitreous humor all play a role in focusing light
onto the retina.
Focusing Light
• Accommodation is
the focusing of light
in the retina.
• Mammals focus by
changing the shape
of the lens.
• The lens is flattened
for distant objects.
• The lens is rounded
for near objects.
Vision
• Photoreceptors of the retina.
– rod cells - light sensitive but do not
distinguish colors.

– cone cells - not as light sensitive as rods but


provide color vision

• Most highly concentrated on the fovea – an area of


the retina that lacks rods.

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Vision
• Rhodopsin (retinal + opsin) is the visual
pigment of rods.
• The absorption of light by rhodopsin initiates a
signal-transduction pathway
• Receptor potential is hyperpolization .

Fig. 49.13
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• Color reception is more complex than the
rhodopsin mechanism.

– Three types of cone cells each with


unique photopsin (green cones, red
cones, blue cones)

• Brain’s analysis of color depends on relative


responses of each type of cone.

– Colorblindness is due to a deficiency, or


absence, of one or more photopsins.
• Inherited as an X-linked trait.
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Vision
• Rods and Cones
synapse with
nuerons called
bipolar cells

• Bipolar cells
synapse with
galgion cells of
optic nerve

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