How does a compound eye work?

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Ben Lemasurier · Answer 1 · 2019-10-18T18:25:52+0000

The Compound Eye. The arthropod (e.g., insects, crustaceans) eye is built quite differently from the vertebrate eye (and the mollusk eye). Arthropod eyes are called compound eyes because they are made up of repeating units, the ommatidia, each of which functions as a separate visual receptor.

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