Receptors

Subject: Biology

Grade: Upper Secondary

Publisher: YDP

Resource types: Class activity

Resource ID: b273
Description:

At the end of this activity, students should be able to:
– define and describe the basic characteristics of receptors (specificity, threshold)
– describe the process of sensory transduction (receptor and action potentials);- describe the functioning of the receptors of touch, pressure, hearing, balance and pain.

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Different receptors... Student activity Receptor potential ... Student activity Sensation; percepti... Student activity Pressure receptors ... Student activity Pain receptors Student activity Proprioreceptors �... Student activity Thermoreceptors –... Student activity Mechanoreceptors �... Student activity

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Secondary School

Upper Secondary (Grades 10-12)

Biology

Nervous coordination

34. Receptors

YDP SA

Keywords

homeostasis, receptors, feedback, receptor, activation threshold, electromagnetic receptor, lateral line system, Meissner corpuscle, muscle spindle, pain receptor, perception, sensation, sensory adaptation, thermogenesis

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