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Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
The rods are sensitive to .......... light and contain a brown pigment called .......... which is formed from vitamin ..........

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The vertebrate retina is inverted in the sense that the light sensing cells are in the back of the retina so that light has to pass through layers of neurons and capillaries before it reaches the rods and cones. The pigment helping is rhodopsin treated by Vitamin A.
So, the correct option is 'dim, rhodopsin, Vitamin A'.

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