Question

In the eyes, the image formed on the retina is

• A. Erect and real
• B. Erect and virtual
• C. Inverted and real
• D. Inverted and virtual

Answer 1

The correct option is C Inverted and real

The retina is the thin light-sensitive membrane lining the inner eyeball towards the back of the eye. When the light goes into the eye it must pass through the lens (a biconvex lens), which inverts the image we are seeing. When we look at an image, light bounces it into our eye. As it enters our eye and passes through the lens the image gets inverted- reversed and flipped the other way- so that the image on our retina looks like an upside down object going from right to left instead of left to right. Once this image is set on the retina, cone cells distinguish the colour and detail, while rod cells distinguish movement and shades of grey.

The retina is connected to a nerve called the optic nerve- the image gets sent from the optic nerve to the occipital lobe in the brain where the image gets flipped and inverted once again to the proper image of the object we first saw- and is finally interpreted.