BIOL 141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Photosystem I, Plastocyanin, Photosynthetic Reaction Centre

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Light reactions make energy used as dark reactions. Split during photolysis (light energy used to break open h2o) Plants are hugely important, form the basis of life. Inorganic carbon: co2: synthesized organic carbon molecules (g3p) Plants only absorb from about 450-500, 700-750 range. Plants are green: chlorophyll b: major blue light: appears green, but isn"t actually. Alpha helices: hydrophobic, stick tails up into membrane. Each pigment has a small range of light that it can actually absorb. Clorophyll a --> chlorphyll b --> ch3 group. Chlorophyll: porphyrin ring structure (like hemoglobin), light absorbing head of structure, mg atom at center. Hydrophobic tail, interacts with hydrophobic regions of protein inside the thylakoid membrane(s) of chloroplasts. Photosystem ii/photosystem i (in order of when they were discovered: ps ii discovered first) Protein pigment structures embedded into the thylakoid membrane. Mg shoots up, excites pigments, pass down energy to the next pigment -->

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