| id | GO:0007601 Detailed information
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| name | visual perception
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| namespace | biological_process
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| def | "The series of events required for an organism to receive a visual stimulus, convert it to a molecular signal, and recognize and characterize the signal. Visual stimuli are detected in the form of photons and are processed to form an image." [GOC:ai]
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| synonym | "sense of sight" EXACT []
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| synonym | "sensory visual perception" EXACT []
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| synonym | "vision" EXACT []
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| xref | Wikipedia:Visual_perception
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| is_a | GO:0050953 ! sensory perception of light stimulus
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