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Photosynthesis: Crash Course Biology #8

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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