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How does the human brain’s biological clock track a 24-hour day?

When daytime photons, which are rich in blue light, enter the retina, they ‘activate’ cells containing melanopsin.

When daytime photons, which are rich in blue light, enter the retina, they ‘activate’ cells containing melanopsin.
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— Sahitya Agrawal, Raxaul

A: The brain’s biological clock is a network of genes and proteins whose concentrations rise and fall in a roughly daily cycle.

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