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Photosynthesis
How plants and other organisms convert light into chemical energy.
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- How did Melvin Calvin use radioactive carbon-14 pulses in algae to trace the path of carbon through photosynthesis?
- How did Willstätter's structural map of chlorophyll enable later research into the electron transport chain of photosynthesis?
- What did the atomic-resolution structure of the photosynthetic reaction centre actually show about how a photon becomes chemical energy?
- What is the difference between chlorophyll-a and chlorophyll-b?
- What kinds of biological processes, like photosynthesis, became measurable once these fast-reaction techniques existed?
- What modern technologies rely on Marcus's framework for electron transfer?