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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The detection, absorption, and use of light, as for vision in animals or phototropism and photosynthesis in plants.

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  • noun biology the absorption of light energy by plants and animals, and its utilization for biologically important purposes

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Examples

  • They provide sensation (including photoreception), communications, signal transduction, trasport, motility and reproductive functions.

    Another predictable argument against front-loading 2007

  • The strong evidence lies in the diversity of extant forms and the deep molecular homologies in both the biochemistry of photoreception and the developmental regulators of form.

    Ya gotta love August - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • THE HUMAN BBAIN which discrete organs " eyes " are devoted to photoreception.

    The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

  • For readers of Perception, photoreception might be a more interesting alternative than movement in response to warmth, but either mechanism would be a novel phenomenon for the body of fly literature Xu et al, 2006.

    Boing Boing Maggie Koerth-Baker 2011

  • Previous anatomical studies of PACAP/melanopsin-containing retinal innervation suggested roles of PACAP/melanopsin in a broad variety of nonvisual photoreception

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chihiro Kawaguchi et al. 2010

  • To clarify the functional roles of intrinsic PACAP in nonvisual photoreception, we examined entrainment, masking and the pupillary light reflex (PLR) in,

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chihiro Kawaguchi et al. 2010

  • Lu J, Fischer D, Saper CB (2003) A broad role for melanopsin in nonvisual photoreception.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chihiro Kawaguchi et al. 2010

  • Lu J, Fischer D, Saper CB (2003) A broad role for melanopsin in nonvisual photoreception.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chihiro Kawaguchi et al. 2010

  • To clarify the functional roles of intrinsic PACAP in nonvisual photoreception, we examined entrainment, masking and the pupillary light reflex (PLR) in,

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chihiro Kawaguchi et al. 2010

  • Previous anatomical studies of PACAP/melanopsin-containing retinal innervation suggested roles of PACAP/melanopsin in a broad variety of nonvisual photoreception

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chihiro Kawaguchi et al. 2010

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