BI110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 29: Accessory Pigment, Electromagnetic Spectrum, Spectrophotometry

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23 Jan 2019
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Module 29 photosynthesis 1: capturing and absorbing light energy. Pigments molecules that selectively absorb light energy. Different plant pigments absorb different wavelengths of light. The electromagnetic spectrum is the full range of electromagnetic wave energy. The distance between two successive peaks is a wavelength. The part our eyes can perceive and that plants use occupies a very narrow part of the spectrum called visible light. Light travels in waves, but light also has characteristics of particles. Light particles are packets of energy called photons. Plants contain two major classes of photosynthetic pigments: chlorophyll and the carotenoids. Land plants and green algae contain only chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b. carotenoids absorb light energy in the wavelength range inaccessible to chlorophyll. They pass this energy along to chlorophyll to use in photosynthesis. The most abundant chlorophyll in green plants is chlorophyll a (appears blue-green in colour because it absorbs purple and red wavelengths).

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