Tag: human brain and sense organs

The fovea centralis is the central portion of the human retina, that has the most acute vision and the best color perception. The cones have 3 types of specific photopigments - red, green and blue, or RGB. Most of the color sensitive cones are packed in the fovea centralis.
The colored part of the eye is called as the iris. It controls light levels inside the eye similar to the aperture on a camera. The round opening in the center of the iris is called as the pupil. The iris is embedded with tiny muscles, that dilate (widen) and constrict (narrow) the pupil size.
The lens, by changing shape, functions to change the focal distance of the eye, so that it can focus on objects at various distances, thus allowing a sharp real image of the object of interest to be formed on the retina, which is then transmitted to the brain by the optical nerve.

Vultures are highly reliant on their sensory systems for the rapid detection and localization of carrion before other scavengers can exploit the resource. Vulture has acute vision. Retina has a comb like pectin in birds.

The human eye is sensitive to violet (400 nm) to red (700 nm ) light only that can generate photometric effect i.e. visual sensation on an eye. So, the correct answer is option B.

Ciliary body and the attached suspensory ligament change the shape (flattened or round) of the lens through relaxation and contraction of ciliary muscles and thereby the focal length to focus on the distant and near object. Contraction of ciliary muscles releases the suspensory ligaments and allow the lens to become round (convex) while relaxation of these muscles makes the lens taut. Since ciliary muscles are involved in accommodation required for close vision, loss of their contraction would not cause loss of vision but would affect the close vision only. The amount of light entering retina is controlled by the iris. 

The choroid is a layer of eyeball. The eyeball has three coats namely sclera, choroid, and retina. The choroid is middle dark pigmented thin vascular layer of the eyeball and is characterized by the presence of many blood vessels. Retina forms the innermost layer of the eye. 

Compound eyes are the characteristic feature of insects. The compound eye of insects consists of many ommatidia, each of which is a separate visual unit that portrays each object into several broken pieces. This type of vision is called as mosaic vision. Among the given options, housefly is an insect and has ommatidia as a unit of an eye. Pheretima (annelid) and pila and sepia (molluscs) do not have compound eyes. 

The choroid is the part of the vascular coat in eyes. It also contains blood vessels that provide nourishment to the eye. It is pigmented towards a rear of the eye and absorbs light. It is a dark brown in colour. It darkens the cavity of the eyeballs to prevent internal reflection of light that might blur the image.

• The word ''Opthalmology'' comes from the Greek roots ''Ophthalmol'' means ''Eye'' and ''Logos'' means ''Study''. Hence Ophthalmology literally means the ''The science of eyes''. 
• An Ophthalmologist is a specialist in medical and surgical eye problems.
• Hence Ophthalmology is the study of Caring, diagnosis and cure of eye diseases.
• So, the correct answer is 'Ophthalmology'.