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carotene

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Summary

carotene is a structural class of chemical entities[1]. carotene ranks in the top 9% of structural class of chemical entities entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,601 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: Tetraterpenes[3], biological pigment[4]
  • Part of: carotene metabolic process[5], carotene biosynthetic process[6], carotene catabolic process[7]
  • Commons category: Carotenes[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Carotenes[9]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[10]

Why It Matters

carotene has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] carotene is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Glossary of Class Names of Organic Compounds and Reactive Intermediates Based on Structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995). wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · Higa4 · 2026-08-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → CarrotDiversityLg.jpg
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Image: CarrotDiversityLg.jpg"
  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → carotene metabolic process, carotene biosynthetic process, carotene catabolic process
    Subclass of → Tetraterpenes, biological pigment
    Instance of → —
    Part of → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 18696, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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