BIOL 118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Electromotive Force, P700, Ribulose

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Reactions occur in the thylakoid membranes which are stacked. Stroma is the fluid outside of the granum. Light capturing reactions take place in the thylakoid of the chloroplast. Calvin cycle takes place in the stroma of the chloroplast. As a particle, light exists in discrete packets. As a wave, light can be characterized by its wavelength. Figure 10. 7 : absorption spectra of photosynthetic pigments. Absorbs a lot of light at blue and red. Light green chlorophyll b absorb at violetish and redish. Reflect and transmit yellow, orange and red light. Main role is to help pass energy on to chlorophyll. Serve as protective function as an antioxidants in plants. High energy uv light can form free radicals. Carotenoids quench free radicals by reducing the free radicals at which point carotenoids themselves get oxidized. Energy (not electron) is passed along to nearby chlorophyll molecule. Transferred energy excites an electron in the reaction center chlorophyll.

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