Bio 1: Photosynthesis

11/27/2000

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Photosynthesis

Talk Outline

The importance of photosynthesis

Photosynthesis as a redox process

Where does the oxygen come from?

Photosynthesis as a redox process

The chloroplast

The light-dependent reaction

The light-independent reaction

How the light reaction works

Pigments

How pigments aid the light-dependent reaction

Photosystems

Non-cyclic electron flow

Production of O by splitting H2O

Photophosphorylation

Cyclic electron flow

The Calvin cycle

Alternative mechanisms

Calvin Cycle flow chart

Strategies to prevent photorespiration

Another strategy...

Author: Sean Todd

Email: stodd@ecology.coa.edu

Home Page: http://www.coa.edu/faculty/webpages/stodd/index.html

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This lectures reviews the fundamental steps of photosynthesis. Focus less on the specific steps, but more the products and results of each of the fundamental stages, the light-dependent and light independent reactions

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