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- noun Plural form of
photopigment .
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Examples
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But if he insists, many teleosts have a greater diversity of photopigments and can see colors we can't even imagine…so humans are once again also-rans in the color vision department.
More creationist misconceptions about the eye - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Invertebrates and vertebrates use very similar photopigments (rhabdomyeric and cilliary opsins respectively) and related adaptor proteins, but different final pathways (more about this later).
Blind Mice vs Behe; the Evolution of Vision - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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The following story dramatizes how photopigments determine what one can see.
Mind Hacks: changing diet might allow you to see infrared 2005
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Still, the experiment demonstrates that photopigments select what one can see; changing those photopigments would change one's vision.
Mind Hacks: changing diet might allow you to see infrared 2005
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Normally, it is impossible to see infrared radiation because, as pointed out earlier, the wavelengths are too long for human photopigments.
Mind Hacks: changing diet might allow you to see infrared 2005
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Normally, it is impossible to see infrared radiation because, as pointed out earlier, the wavelengths are too long for human photopigments.
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The following story dramatizes how photopigments determine what one can see.
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Still, the experiment demonstrates that photopigments select what one can see; changing those photopigments would change one's vision.
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If the retina could be encouraged to use some alternative form of vitamin A in its manufacture of photopigments, the spectral sensitivity of those photopigments would be abnormal, perhaps extending into infrared radiation.
Mind Hacks: changing diet might allow you to see infrared 2005
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If the retina could be encouraged to use some alternative form of vitamin A in its manufacture of photopigments, the spectral sensitivity of those photopigments would be abnormal, perhaps extending into infrared radiation.
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