Animal Physiology Question
1. Dynamic Range is the range of stimulus intensities over whicha receptor can respond. Receptors that have a smaller (or narrower)dynamic range have much better discrimination of changes instimulus intensity than receptors that have a large dynamic range(although I can’t test figures here, you should be able to draw aneuron with a wide vs. narrow dynamic range). Please explain thetrade-off between dynamic range and discrimination using therelationship between number of action potentials fired and changesin stimulus intensity for both receptors with narrow vs. largedynamic ranges.
