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Date November 2019 Marks available [Maximum mark: 3] Reference code 19N.3.SL.TZ0.6c
Level SL Paper 3 Time zone TZ0
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19N.3.SL.TZ0.6c
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Explain, using the diagram, how the visual stimuli from the right eye reach the visual cortex of the brain.

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a. right eye receives information/stimuli/light from both «left and right» visual field ✔

b. light from the left visual field goes to the right side of the retina
OR
vice versa ✔

c. impulses «from retina» carried along the optic nerve ✔

d. «optic» nerves cross at «optic» chiasma ✔

e. impulses from the left side of the retina goes to the left side of the brain
OR
vice versa ✔

 

Accept any of these points made on an annotated diagram.

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