BLG 151 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Accessory Pigment, Photoexcitation, Photodissociation

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Phototrophy- process of harnessing photoexcited/light excited electrons to power cell growth. Energy from light trapped and converted to chemical energy. Oxygen is generated and released into the environment. Light --- chlorophyll --- electron transport chain ----nadp+--nadph---- pmf ---- atp. Different chlorophylls can absorb different amounts of light. Accessory pigments- pigments that are responsible for transferring light energy to chlorophylls. Accessory pigments absorb different wavelengths of light than chlorophylls. Energy for photosynthesis comes from the photoexcitation of a light absorbing pigment (like chlorophyll) Photolysis- separation of an electron from a donor molecule such as h2o or h2s caused by photoexcitation form light. Each electron is then transferred to an ets. Ets then generates a proton potential and the reduced coenzyme nadph (instead of nadh) The proton potential drives the synthesis of atp through f1fo atp synthase. All photolysis shares common structures including: antenna system, reaction centre complex, electron transport system (ets, energy carriers.

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