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The eye and photoreceptors

This activity begins with an interesting case of academic honesty from the 1930s. The structure of the retina is discovered and students learn how to annotate retina diagrams. A short second activity give some practice at labelling parts of the eye and a final activity investigates optic chiasma to consolidate student understanding. These two diagrams of the cells of the retina were published in separate books 20...

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