01:119:115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Chloroplast Membrane, Electromagnetic Spectrum, Stoma

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Biological Science
• Course: 01:119:115
• Professor: Christy Beal

Document Summary

> oxygen is electronegative, it tears things up. > when oxygen comes in your body, you grab it as fast as you can and turn it into water so it doesn"t oxides anything. > autotrophs= sustain themselves without eating anything derived from other organisms. > heterotroph= obtaining their organic material from other organisms. > consumers, getting carbon from somewhere else: the nature of light. > part of the electromagnetic spectrum (diagram @ the bottom of the slide) > wavelength of light is the amount of energy in a photon. > energy in a photon in light is greater in shorter wavelengths than in longer wavelengths. > high energy wavelengths are good for some process and aren"t for others (same thing for shorter wavelengths) > non-visible wavelengths: very little useful in biological systems. > gamma rays will kill you and micro waves (destroys living systems: effects of proton on electrons.