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Q.Name the visual units of the compound eyes of cockroach.

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Step 1. Each compound eye of the cockroach is not a single lens but a cluster of roughly 2,000 repeating visual units.

Step 2. Each of these individual units is called an ommatidium (plural: ommatidia), and each one independently captures a small part of the visual scene. …

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