In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PORPHYROPSIN
Noun
porphyropsin (plural porphyropsins)
Any of a group of purple carotenoid pigments, similar to rhodopsin, in the retinas of some fish
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(noun) (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm
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