BIOL 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Oxaloacetic Acid, Chemiosmosis, Accessory Pigment

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Energy for almost all life on earth comes from photosynthesis. Oxygenic photosynthesis carried out by cyanobacteria, 7 groups of algae, and land plants. This is basically the reverse equation of respiration. In plants, photosynthesis occurs in the chloroplasts, mainly found in leaves. Chloroplasts have 3 membranes and the stroma that contains the thylakoids. Require light: occur in the thylakoid, make atp and reduce nadp+ to nadph. Light independent reactions (dark reactions): does not require light, occur in the stroma, use atp and nadph to synthesize organic molecules from co2 through carbon fixation. Photons: particles of light that acts as discrete bundle of energy. Energy is inversely proportional to the wavelength of the light. Light energy can remove electrons from some molecules (the photoelectric effect) Chlorophyll a is the main pigment found in plants, and it absorbs violet- blue and red light. It is the only pigment that can directly convert light energy to chemical energy.

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