Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Day 1

I've arrived from the sun as sunlight and energy and found myself in a strange green world! The place is called a chloroplast, and it's located in a plant leaf cell. Through the inner membrane, a light-absorbing molecule called a pigment, specifically chlorophyll, absorbs me, and I'm now in a thykaloid, a flat saclike membrane, which is in a stack of other thykaloids (the stack is called a grana). This is a natural occurrence (a photochemical reaction), but I hope my presence isn't TOO exciting...

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  2. Anonymous2/24/2010

    What lights do chlorophyll best absorb?

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  3. Chlorophyll best absorbs red and blue pigments, but is poor at absorbing green, and that is why green is the most visible.

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  4. you saved me from doing an assignment over night

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