THE ELECTRON TRANSPORT
Chapter 11: PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN HIGHER PLANTS · BIOLOGY · EN medium
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In photosystem II the reaction centre chlorophyll a absorbs nm wavelength of red light causing electrons to become excited and jump into an orbit farther from the atomic nucleus. These electrons are picked up by an electron acceptor which passes them to an electrons transport Photon Reaction centre Pigment molecules Primary acceptor Figure . The light harvesting complex system consisting of cytochromes (Figure . ). This movement of electrons is downhill, in terms of an oxidation-reduction or redox potential scale. The electrons are not used up as they pass through the electron transport chain, but are passed on to the pigments of
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In photosystem II the reaction centre chlorophyll a absorbs nm wavelength of red light causing electrons to become excited and jump into an orbit farther from the atomic nucleus. These electrons are picked up by an electron acceptor which passes them to an electrons transport Photon Reaction centre Pigment molecules Primary acceptor Figure . The light harvesting complex system consisting of cytochromes (Figure . ).
This movement of electrons is downhill, in terms of an oxidation-reduction or redox potential scale. The electrons are not used up as they pass through the electron transport chain, but are passed on to the pigments of
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