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Raihanda Dwimart Mangawe
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Have You Imagine, Why does The Leaf have green Colour?
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The Answer is, Because they Have Chlorophyll. But, What is Chlorophyll?
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Your Date Here Your Footer Here 4 Merriam Webster Definitions of Chlorophyll
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Let’s Learn more About Pigment in Photosynthesis
• Light is absorbed by pigments. • The primary pigment for photosynthesis is chlorophyll a • It absorbs blue and red light, not green (green light is reflected back!)
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• Absorption • Action spectrum of
photosynthesis closely spectrum of matches absorption spectrum chlorophyll a: BLUE & of RED chlorophyll a, but not perfectly (due to accessory pigments)
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Thus, What’s the Different between Chlorophyll a and Chlorophyll b? • Chlorophyll a is the • Accessory pigments absorb at different wavelengths, extending the primary range of light, useful for photosynthesis. photosynthetic • Accessory pigments like chlorophyll b pigment that drives and carotenoids (beta-carotene, photosynthesis. lycopene): absorb light at different wavelengths, (extending the absorption range) ; help transfer some energy to chlorophyll a ; protect cell from harmful byproducts
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Chemical Structure of Chlorophyll
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More…
Chloroplasts are the
site of photosynthesis and found mostly in the interior cells of leaves.
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More…
• The green color of
chloroplasts is from chlorophyll, a light- absorbing pigment that plays a central role in converting solar energy to chemical energy.
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Where is Chloroplast?
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Let’s Talk about Photosystems, To know more about role of Chlorophyll… With photo… for a custom effect
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How Chlorophyll Works in Photosynthesis The Explanations in the
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How Photosystems Harvest Energy?
• Light behaves as • Chlorophyll molecules
photons, a fixed absorb photons. quantity of light • Electrons in the pigment gain energy. energy. • As the electrons fall back to their ground state, energy is used to drive chemical processes in the chloroplast.
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• Photons are absorbed by clusters • Photosystems : of pigment molecules (antenna molecules) in the thylakoid collections of membrane.
chlorophyll • When any antenna molecule
absorbs a photon, it is molecules transmitted from molecule to molecule until it reaches a particular chlorophyll a molecule = the reaction center. • At the reaction center is a primary electron acceptor which removes an excited electron from the reaction center chlorophyll a.
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Transfer of Electrons in PSII & PSI
• In PSII, the energy from • After electrons have
the excited e- pumps H+ moved through PSI, an into the thylakoid as it intermediary molecule moves through the ETC. (embedded in the membrane and adjacent • Electrons from PSII are to PSI) transfers the e- to transferred to PSI. NADP+. A H+ is attracted to this molecule and NADPH is formed.
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