BI110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Photomorphogenesis, Electronegativity, Chlorophyll

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The sum of all chemical reactions occurring in every cell. Chemical reactions are the breaking and forming of covalent bonds. You start with two substrates and they become converted into two or more products. The products are different molecules than the reactants. There are two types of reactions: energy releasing (exergonic): reactants have more free energy than the products, energy costing (endergonic): the products have more free energy than the reactants. For this to proceed, you need an input of energy, usually from. Photoreceptor: basic light-sensing system, found almost universally in all organisms: humans have photoreceptors in our eyes so we can see. Rhodopsin: most common photoreceptor in nature: basis of vision in animals, also used by many other organisms, our retinas are full of this; this is what is really sensing the light. Consists of a pigment molecule (retinal) bound to a membrane protein (opsin)

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