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Natural pigment

natural pigment

A naturally occurring coloured compound; absorbs light in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Compare: structural colour.

Synonym: biochrome.


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Re: Chlorophyll Supplements

Chlorophyll is an important natural product, beneficial to humanity. Anyone care to present any argument for the ... The chlorophyll molecule bears a striking resemblance to hemoglobin, the red pigment in human blood. Except for the color, function, the use of Mg instead of Fe ...

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by canalon
Sun Aug 23, 2009 1:41 am
 
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Chlorophyll Supplements

Chlorophyll is an important natural product, beneficial to humanity. The chlorophyll molecule bears a striking resemblance to hemoglobin, the red pigment in human blood.

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Re: Looking for answers/input.

... of selection doesn't apply. To clarify my understanding of natural selection: as I see it, it is where a new feature (which has to be ... chance of survival. On a small scale, examples typically involve pigment (such as the peppered moth) which is one thing, is observed and I ...

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Topic: Looking for answers/input.
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So, is this how Eye Color Would Work?

... which produces brown and hazel eyes, but at the very least it is a pigmentation, and blue/gray eyes are usually results of lacking pigment. ... block UV light from reaching the inside of the eye. Conclusions: My natural eye color may actually be green. Eye pigmentation may be expressed ...

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Sat Jul 26, 2008 5:57 pm
 
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Topic: So, is this how Eye Color Would Work?
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The Fiber Disease

... Pocket S. Sekharan, M. Sugihara, V. Buss* The absorbance of the visual pigment rhodopsin has been calculated with high precision by using the CASPT2 platform for the chromophore and a natural population analysis for the charges of the amino acids that line the protein ...

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