How Do Photons Initiate the Process of Vision?

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Photon help please -- how does vision work?

how does a photon of activate the molecular pathways that lead to “vision”?

Need help asap can't find anything on this.
 
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Oh no! Someone has removed all reference material about 'eyes' and 'vision' from the web!
 
I can't find anywhere, where it talks about how a photon activates a molecular pathway.
 

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