Isolation and characterization of photosystem I and II membrane particles from the blue-green alga, Synechococcus cedrorum
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"Photosynthesis is the process of converting sunlight into chemical energy which can be utilized for the biosynthesis of useful organic molecules. This metabolic process has been termed the most important series of reactions to take place on earth, for it alone makes available the ultimate source of energy, sunlight, to nearly all heterotrophic organisms. Photosynthesis that leads to the evolution of oxygen is an event that occurs in all green plants, in the eucaryotic algae, and in the procaryotic blue-green algae. Although the process itself is several billion years old, its discovery and early study date back only as far as the late 18th century. Obviously, a process as fundamental as photosynthesis deserves considerable interest and examination. However, only in the last 25 years has any real progress been made in understanding the complex nature of the mechanism by which light is converted into useful chemical energy."--Introduction.
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