| Phenotype: | background adaptation disrupted, abnormal |
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| Note: | This statement combines anatomy and/or ontology terms with phenotype quality terms to create a complete phenotype (EQ) statement. For detailed information on individual terms, click the hyperlinked term name. |
| Name: | background adaptation |
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| Definition: | Any process in which an organism changes its pigmentation (lightening in response to a brighter environment or darkening in response to a dimmer environment) in response to a change in light intensity. |
| Ontology: | GO: Biological Process [GO:0120302] QuickGO AmiGO |
| Name: | disrupted |
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| Definition: | A quality of a single process inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's being interrupted of its normal course. |
| Ontology: | Phenotypic Quality Ontology [PATO:0001507] |