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Questions
1. The cornea’s main function is to refract or bend light helping a person
see things clearly. It is considered the outermost layer covering the
pupil, iris and anterior chamber.
2. The optic nerve is the connection that lets the eyes send signals to the
brain describing what they detect. During dissection the optic nerve
should not be cut because it takes away the importance of it.
3. The fat surrounding the eye helps keep it in place. With the fat acting
as a protective layer the eye doesn’t get bruised or bump against the
skull. In the dissection fat is cut away so only the eyeball can be
visible. It helps prevent confusion of certain parts and cutting the
wrong things.
4. The sclera is a hard tissue which warps around the eyeball helping
maintain its shape and protect it from injury. With the sclera being a
hard tissue it has a solid and tough texture which is different from
most parts of the eyeball.
5. Preserved lenses are unable to adjust their shape to focus and produce
a clear visual. The lenses of living organisms require nourishment to
maintain their growth and transparency while preserved lenses are
replaced every 1 to 2 years.
6. The vitreous humor acts as a clear, gel-like substance that fills the
space between the lens and retina in the eye, primarily serving to
maintain the eye's shape and allows for light to pass through to reach
the retina
7. The iris is a thin colored part of the eye unique to each person. The iris
has muscle which controls the pupil. The pupil is the small black
opening responsible for regulating the amount light that enters the eye
by dilating or expanding.
8. The retina's connection to the optic nerve is significant because this is
the point where visual information gathered by the retina is
transmitted to the brain, and the area where the optic nerve connects
to the retina lacks light-sensitive cells
9. A tapetum lucidum, present in many nocturnal animals, acts as a
reflective layer behind the retina that bounces light back through the
eye, enhancing their night vision, while humans lack this structure
because our primary activity is during daylight hours where high visual
acuity is more important than maximized night vision, and the tapetum
lucidum would compromise our daytime vision clarity by causing image
blurring
10. The most challenge if part of the dissection was having to be
came around the eye and removing its various parts like the retina.
The dissection shows a simplicity in the design of the eye. Each part of
the eye is layer one on top of another, but each are important in
creating the vision of a person.
11. Visual Impairments:
Name Causes How does it affect the
eye?
Glaucoma Damage to the optic It causes vision loss and
nerve from fluid blindness
buildup and pressure
inside the eye.
Cataracts Aging or injury It scatters and blocks the
changes the tissue light as it passes through
make-up of the eye’s the lens, creating blurred
lens vision
Presbyopia The hardening of Causes a person vision to
lens of your eye, become blurry when
which occurs with looking at closer objects
aging
Hyperopia Occurs when light A farsighted person sees
entering the eye clearly far, but near
focuses behind the vision is blurry
retina instead of
directly on it
Myopia Caused by a Causes blurry vision in
combination of the distance and clearer
genetic and vision up close
environmental
factors
Macular Caused by age, Damages the retina and
Degeneration family history, causes the gradual loss of
smoking, diet or sun central vision
exposure
