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rhabdomere

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  • details of the mammalian eye
    photoreception
    / Neural superposition eyes

    …above the other), known as rhabdomeres, each with its own axon. This means that each ommatidium should be capable of a seven-point resolution of the image, which raises the problem of incorporating multiple inverted images into a single erect image that the ordinary apposition eye avoids. In 1967 German biologist…

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    …above the other), known as rhabdomeres, each with its own axon. This means that each ommatidium should be capable of a seven-point resolution of the image, which raises the problem of incorporating multiple inverted images into a single erect image that the ordinary apposition eye avoids. In 1967 German biologist…

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