photopigment in English
noun
1
a pigment whose chemical state depends on its degree of illumination, such as those in the retina of the eye.
The difference absorption spectroscopy in both living plasmodium and cell homogenate shows that there is a photopigment which converts reversibly between red and far-red types.
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1. Applying chromatic adaptation, which usually provides isolation of different photopigments, to total achromatopsia at first glance does not seem very promising, because there should be only one photopigment in the retina of those patients, namely rhodopsin.