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Which is the visual of compound eye of insects?

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Ommatidia
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Rod
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Rhabdom
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None
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Solution

The correct option is A Ommatidia
The compound eyes of arthropods like insects, crustaceans and millipedes are composed of units called as ommatidia. An ommatidium contains a cluster of photoreceptor cells surrounded by support cells and pigment cells. Each ommatidium is innervated by one axon bundle and provides the brain with one picture element. The brain forms an image from these independent picture elements. The number of ommatidia in the eye depends upon the type of insect and ranges from just a handful in the primitive Archaeognatha and Thysanura to around 30 thousand in larger Anisoptera dragonflies and in some Sphingidae moths.
Therefore, the correct answer is option A.

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