BIO 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Accessory Pigment, Photorespiration, Rubisco
24 Oct 2016
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A redox process to convert sunlight to sugar and other molecules for the use of energy. Survives without the need to live on sources derived from other living things. Able to survive on (cid:498)food(cid:499) produced by itself. Heterotrophs: they cannot produce their own food. Requires sources originating or in the form of other living things, as. Located primarily in mesophyll (interior tissue) of leaves, but also present in green areas of a plant. A mesophyll cell is contains stroma, which is a dense fluid in located within each chloroplast organelle. Suspended in this stroma are thylakoids, which are sacs that house chloroplast in their membranes. Detection of certain colors by the human eye. Chloroplasts split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Stomata allow carbon dioxide to enter leaves, and oxygen to exit. Discrete particles with a fixed quantity of energy. Tackles each carbon monoxide molecule one at a time. Attaches it to a five carbon sugar (rubp)
