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sanjeewa | 03:56 Wed 12th Aug 2009 | Science
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how many nerves from eye connected to the optic nerve?
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Each Optic nerve contains around 1.2 million nerve fibers, which are axons of the retinal ganglion cells of one retina. In the fovea, which has high acuity, these ganglion cells connect to as few as 5 photoreceptors; in other areas of retina, they connect to many thousand photoreceptors.

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