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Question
Given below is a diagram depicting a defect of the human eye? Study the same and answer the question that follow:
Give two possible reasons for this defect of the eye in human beings.
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Solution
The two possible reasons for myopia are the eyeball is lengthened from front to back and the lens is too curved.
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