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Also Known As visual purple

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Diagram showing the structure of rod and cone cells in the eye, with labeled parts including outer and inner segments, mitochondria, nucleus, and synapse. A detailed view of the rod's outer segment highlights lamellar particles, free-floating disks, ciliary fibrils, and membrane folds, illustrating photoreceptor anatomy involved in vision.
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Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist