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animals
- In animal development: The eye
…the vesicle becomes a double-walled optic cup. The thick inner layer of the optic cup gives rise to the sensory retina of the eye; the thinner outer layer becomes the pigment coat of the retina. The opening of the optic cup, wide at first, gradually becomes constricted to form the…
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humans
- In prenatal development: Eye
The grooves quickly become indented optic cups, each connected to the brain by a slender optic stalk. Most of the cup will become the retina, but its rim represents the epithelial part of the insensitive ciliary body and iris. The thicker inner layer of the cup becomes the neural layer…
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