• In photosynthesis, state transitions are rearrangements of the photosynthetic apparatus which occur on short time-scales (seconds to minutes). The effect...
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  • in photosynthesis. LHCs are arrayed around photosynthetic reaction centers in both plants and photosynthetic bacteria and collect more of the incoming...
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    the site of the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis with the photosynthetic pigments embedded directly in the membrane. It is an alternating pattern...
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    energy redistribution between the two photosynthetic reaction centers, PSII and PSI, known as "state transitions". OCP is found in a majority of cyanobacterial...
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    the K–Pg boundary. Colonial coral species rely upon symbiosis with photosynthetic algae, which collapsed due to the events surrounding the K–Pg boundary...
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    basal group, is the ancestor of both the non-photosynthetic group Melainabacteria and the photosynthetic cyanobacteria, also called Oxyphotobacteria....
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    heat-driven transformations, the energy released in combustion is still photosynthetic in origin. Terrestrial plants tended to form coal and methane. Many...
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    used by varying photosynthetic organisms vary slightly in their enzyme structure, and this enzyme structure results in varying transition states. This diversity...
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    cell division, which is thought to be inherited from their ancestor—a photosynthetic cyanobacterium that was engulfed by an early eukaryotic cell. Chloroplasts...
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  • icehouse state. One proposed driver of the Ordovician Ice Age was the evolution of land plants. Under that paradigm, the rapid increase in photosynthetic biomass...
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    the site on the oxygen evolving complex, where oxygen is produced. Photosynthetic water splitting (or oxygen evolution) is one of the most important reactions...
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    Fenna–Matthews–Olson complex (category Photosynthetic pigments)
    Jan; Aartsma, Thijs J. (1998). "Excited-State Structure and Dynamics in FMO Antenna Complexes from Photosynthetic Green Sulfur Bacteria". The Journal of...
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    by which atmospheric carbon dioxide is converted by plants and other photosynthetic organisms to energy-rich molecules such as glucose. It emerged approximately...
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  • shyness Pettai, Hugo; Oja, Vello; Freiberg, Arvi; Laisk, Agu (2005). "Photosynthetic activity of far-red light in green plants". Biochimica et Biophysica...
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  • a process that does not necessarily involve chemical damage. When photosynthetic antenna pigments such as chlorophyll are excited by light absorption...
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    their photosynthetic nature. Thus, they live in diverse water environments if enough nutrients and light are available for net photosynthetic activity...
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    originate from water. This system thus serves as a functional model for photosynthetic water oxidation. Crabtree has made significant contributions in C–H...
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    when compared with their bacterial relatives. Chloroplast genomes in photosynthetic organisms are normally 120–200 kb encoding 20–200 proteins and mitochondrial...
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    C3 and C4 grasses, referring to the photosynthetic pathway for carbon fixation. The C4 grasses have a photosynthetic pathway, linked to specialized Kranz...
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    centered π*← π transitions and a weak transition around 350 nm (d-d transition). Light absorption results in formation of an excited state have a relatively...
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  • Mechanical Engineering) in 1968. His doctoral thesis was titled, The photosynthetic response of plants to their environment: a holocoenotic method of analysis...
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    return from excited to non-excited states. It is used as an indicator of photosynthetic energy conversion in plants, algae and bacteria. Excited chlorophyll...
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    players in the global carbon cycle. They account for about half of global photosynthetic activity and at least half of the oxygen production, despite amounting...
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  • injecting them into the photosynthetic chain. Proton-coupled electron transfer along several cofactors of the photosynthetic chain, causing local, spatial...
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    period, is believed to have been at least partially caused by early photosynthetic organisms, which reduced the concentration of carbon dioxide and decreased...
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    (1998). Predicting the future: An introduction to the theory of forecasting. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0791435533. Adams, Fred C.; Laughlin...
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    a free element in air without being continuously replenished by the photosynthetic activities of autotrophs such as cyanobacteria, chloroplast-bearing...
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    Mostafa El-Sayed (category Florida State University alumni)
    steady-state and ultra fast laser spectroscopy to understand relaxation, transport and conversion of energy in molecules, in solids, in photosynthetic systems...
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    those aimed at measuring the photosynthetic efficiency of photosystem II, both in the light (ΔF/Fm') and in a dark-adapted state (Fv/Fm). Chlorophyll fluorometers...
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    Moreover, only chromists contain chlorophyll c. Since then, many non-photosynthetic phyla of protists, thought to have secondarily lost their chloroplasts...
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