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photopigment
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photopigment [¦fōd·ō¦pig·mənt]
(biochemistry)
A pigment that is unstable in the presence of light of appropriate wavelengths, such as the chromophore pigment which combines with opsins to form rhodopsin in the rods and cones of the vertebrate eye.
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