BIOL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Light Pollution, Melanocyte, Melatonin

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Biol 1000 chapter 1: light and life. Light serves two important functions for life on earth: source of energy, source of information. This is used to optimize light harvesting for photosynthesis. Light is defined as the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye. Light is seen as two things: a stream of energy particles called photons, a wave (as it travels through space) Light is often referred to as the particle-wave duality. Scientists often distinguish between different types of em radiation by their wavelength, the distance between two peaks. Relationship between wavelength of light and energy of photons it carries is an inverse one; The longer the wavelength, the lower the energy of the photon carries (vice- versa). Photon of light hits an object; three things can happen: reflected off the object, transmitted through the object, absorbed by the object. To be used as a source of energy/information by an organism.

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