Episode Details

Hank explains the extremely complex series of reactions whereby plants feed themselves on sunlight, carbon dioxide and water, and also create some by products we're pretty fond of as well.

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Citations:
http://biology.about.com/od/plantbiology/a/aa050605a.htm
http://www.rsc.org/Education/Teachers/Resources/cfb/Photosynthesis.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21598/
http://www.life.illinois.edu/govindjee/paper/gov.html
http://scienceaid.co.uk/biology/biochemistry/photosynthesis.html
http://www.biology-innovation.co.uk/pages/plant-biology-ecology/photosynthesis/
http://chemistry.about.com/od/lecturenotesl3/a/photosynthesis_4.htm
http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/calvin.html
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/thermo/probability.html

Table of Contents:
1) Water 1:16
2) Carbon Dioxide 1:32
3) Sunlight/Photons 1:43
4) Chloroplasts 1:57
5) Light Reaction/Light-Dependent 2:42
a. Photosystem II 3:33
b. Cytochrome Complex 5:54
c. ATP Synthase 6:16
d. Photosystem I 7:06
6) Dark Reactions/Light-Independent 7:55
a. Phase 1 - Carbon Fixation 8:50
b. Phase 2 - Reduction 11:31
c. Phase 3 - Regeneration 12:02

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