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1 Where you find the highest cone concentration 2 Needed to make the pigment retinal
7 One of two things separating the anterior eye from the posterior 3 Also known as the neural tunic
8 Changing the shape of the lens to focus light on the retina 4 When aqueous humor is blocked from circulation and pressure builds in the eye
10 Better for color discimination 5 The basis of visual pigments
12 The blind spot where ganglia converge in the eye 6 Better for night sight
14 These neurons have photoreceptors on one side and ganglia on the other 9 Fat found behind the eye to help support it
15 An area of the retina lacking rods 11 Part of rhodopsin activated by and split from retinal by a photon in process of photoreception
13 What the lens does to light bound for the retina


Reference

Martini, Frederic and Bartholomew, Edwin. Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology. 2nd ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2000.

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