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Noun Concept
Categories: Sensory receptors, Photosynthetic pigments, Pigments, Molecular biology
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photopigment  photopigments
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A special pigment found in the rods and cones of the retina WordNet 3.0
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A special pigment found in the rods and cones of the retina WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Photopigments are unstable pigments that undergo a chemical change when they absorb light. Wikipedia
An unstable pigment that undergoes a physical or chemical change upon absorbing a particular wavelength of light; also see Wikipedia Disambiguation
chemical compound Wikidata
Any pigment that is unstable in the presence of light; used especially of the chromophore pigments in the rod cells and cone cells of the eye. Wiktionary
IS A
pigment
compound
biological pigment
HAS KIND
iodopsin
visual purple
melanopsin
FOUND IN TAXON
animal
HAS CAUSE
color vision
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