ENVS 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Chlorophyll, C3 Carbon Fixation, Light-Dependent Reactions

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Cells use energy to do: chemical work, mechanical work, electrochemical work. A force is said to do work. Primary producers trap energy from the sun and convert it into chemical bond energy. All organisms use the energy stored in the covalent bonds of organic compounds to do work; energy is released and utilized when the bonds are broken. Organic carbon source of carbon and energy. Ground rules of metabolism: first law of thermodynamics. The total amount of energy in the universe is constant. Energy can undergo conversions from one form to another but it cannot be created or destroyed. In isolated system, concentrated energy disperses over time, and consequently less concentration energy is available to do useful work. Another way of seeing this: disorder tends to increase in the universe. Corollary: energy conversion is not 100% efficient. Energy is lost as heat during extraction and use of energy stored in chemical bonds.

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