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opsin [ˈɒpsɪn] n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) the protein that together with retinene makes up the purple visual pigment rhodopsin [back formation from rhodopsin] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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The results indicated that scabbardfish shifted from UV to violet vision by deleting the molecule at site 86 in the chain of amino acids in the opsin protein. The inner segment contains mitochondria, ribosomes and membranes where opsin molecules are assembled and passed to the outer segment discs. For example, light-sensitive opsin proteins, made in the eye and necessary for color vision, are encoded by a cluster of two to nine genes on the X chromosome. |
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