What do you understand by the term accommodation, Biology

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(a) What do you understand by the term 'accommodation'?

(b) What part does the lens play in this process?

 

a) Accommodation is the way the eye can focus either near or distant objects to form a sharp image on the retina. 

b) The lens is made thinner so that light from a distant object is refracted less, or fatter so that light from a close object is refracted more.

 


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