BIOL 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: George Wald, Chloroplast, Retina

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Organisms that use photosynthesis use light energy to convert co2 into sugar. The potential energy of an excited electron in chlorophyll a is used in the etc to synthesize the energy rich compounds: nadph and atp. These molecules are consumed in the calvin cycle to convert co2 into glucose. Reinhardtii cell absorbs millions of photons each second. Not all organisms that use light energy are photosynthetic. Halobacterium species live in lethal salt water and contains a pigment bacteriordophsin with is a light driven proton pump. It is used for a range of energy requiring reactions but not for synthesis of carbohydrates from co2. The basic light sensing system is the photoreceptor rhodopsin. Very common in animals and other organisms too. Eg, c. reinhardtii has a light sensing unit called the eyespot. It does not consists of a brain like us, so the eyespot triggers an automatic response. Each rhodopsin molecule consists of a protein called opsin that binds with retinal.

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