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Rhodopsin

Rhodopsin lives in the back of your eye. When light hits it, it bends, and that bend tells your brain you saw something.

Fun fact

It is so sensitive that a single photon of light can trigger it.

Words to know

protein
neuron
cell

NGSS alignment

MS-LS1-3Body as a system
MS-LS1-2Inside the cell

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P08100. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P08100.

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