Notes Jan. 22 Flashcards
Stacks of pancake like substances
Granum
Flattened saclike membranes
Thylakoids
Fluid filled space outside the grana
Stroma
Phase one is located in
The thylakoids
Location of phase 2
Stroma
Most common light absorbing pigments in plants and trees
Chlorophyll A and B
Chlorophyll A and B absorb
Violet-blue region and they reflect green
Traps additional light and is an accessory pigment
Carotene
Carotene absorbs and reflects what
Blue-green,
Reflects yellow orange and red
Study of the flow and transformation of energy
Thermodynamic
Law of conservation of energy
1st law
Energy can neither be
Created nor destroyed
Energy cannot be converted without the loss of useable energy (entropy increases)
2nd law
Measure of unusable energy all chemical reactions in a cell are referred to as metabolism
Entrophy
The product of one reaction is the substrate for the next reaction
Metabolic pathway