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Question:

Choose the correct statement. Receptors do not produce graded potentials. Nociceptors respond to changes in pressure. Photoreceptors in the human eye are depolarized during darkness and become hyperpolarized in response to the light stimulus. Meissner's corpuscles are thermoreceptors.

Nociceptors respond to changes in pressure.

Photoreceptors in the human eye are depolarized during darkness and become hyerpolarized in response to the light stimulus.

Receptors do not produce graded potentials.

Meissner's corpsucles are thermoreceptors.

Solution:

Bright light causes breakdown of rhodopsin into opsin and retinal and resultant hyperpolarized rod cells send less neural signal i.e., reduce light sensitivity while darkness causes repolarization. A receptor potential is varied potential difference produced across the membrane; it is not all or none response. Nociceptor responds to pain not to pressure. Meissner corpuscles are one of the three types of cutaneous mechanoreceptors sensitive to fine touch and are found in the skin of sole. Therefore, the correct answer is option A.