BIOL 1412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: Ocean Acidification, Lignin, Antacid

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Oxygen consists of 49% of mass of earth"s crust. 89% of ocean mass takes up 21% of atmosphere: all the waste product of noncylic electron flow in photosynthesis. Plants evolved capacity to make lignin, which lead to greater size, and stability, and ability to live on land. Lignin makes cell walls very strong and makes them indigestible. White rot can break lignin and cellulose. Brown rot can work around lignin and digest cellulose of cell walls. We ended up with deposits of lignin, recognized as coal, oil, natural gas, peat. Burning fossil fuels returns co2 to atmosphere. More than half becomes dissolved in the ocean. The rate of diffusion depends on phytoplankton photosynthesis (removes carbon from water) Marine organisms incorporate carbon (and calcium) into shells (like mollusks: ph effects on life: formation of shells relies on calcium carbonate in sea water.

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