Sentences with phrase «like photosynthesis»

Most photochemical processes (like photosynthesis) are very nearly balanced on an annual scale.

Tim Folkerts says «Most photochemical processes (like photosynthesis) are very nearly balanced on an annual scale.

The flow of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) from land to sea typically accounts for a small fraction of an ecosystem's carbon budget compared with processes like photosynthesis and respiration.

Metabolism is a chemical process, just like photosynthesis or digestion.

«That really would make it like photosynthesis,» Meyer says.

«If we can precisely understand and even influence fast ionization processes, we are able to learn a lot about light - driven processes like photosynthesis — especially about the initial moments in which this complex machinery is set into motion and which is hardly understood to date.»

But researchers recently have found quantum effects are important for certain biological processes, like photosynthesis.

Processes like photosynthesis or microbial oxidation serve to «fractionate» the isotopes, increasing the proportion of carbon - 12, which then gets translated to the emitted gas.

Take a «simple» process like photosynthesis.

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«Edible Growth shows real growth, an intensifying flavor and structure, makes smart use of natural processes like fermentation and photosynthesis, and lowers the use of resources.»

This research aims to improve rice's photosynthesis to make it more productive and efficient in using resources like water, light, and nutrients.

And so, yeah, if we look at the photosynthesis, we are using like 30 percent to 50 percent of it depending on what numbers you look at.

The stuff you might dig out of your garden is, like his approach to artificial photosynthesis, «inorganic materials plus biological stuff,» he says.

And the problem of artificial photosynthesis seemed like something substantial to throw himself into — challenging enough «so [I] wouldn't be jobless in 10 or 15 years,» he jokes.

To make their case, the researchers first point to the 2016 discovery that Synechocystis cyanobacteria, single - celled organisms capable of photosynthesis, act like ocelli.

If plant life does exist on a planet like Kepler - 186f, its photosynthesis could have been influenced by the star's red - wavelength photons, making for a color palette that's very different than the greens on Earth.

With consumption growing, oil supplies tight, and the world in a warming trend, the search is on for better energy sources — clean coal, safe nuclear reactors, and more far - reaching ideas like artificial photosynthesis.

To obtain sufficient moisture for photosynthesis and growth, redwoods reach into the air with leaves shaped like baseball mitts and capture the fog that rolls in by night and languishes through most mornings.

The findings will help scientists disentangle inputs and outputs in places like the Amazon rainforest, where there are both big emissions from deforestation and big sinks from photosynthesis.

Like us, they get their energy by consuming other life forms rather than by photosynthesis.

In a future hydrogen economy, he imagines, a house would function much like a leaf does, using the sun to power household electricity and to break down water into fuel — a sort of artificial photosynthesis.

The system is unique because it allows the algae to simultaneously do photosynthesis like a plant while also «eating» carbon and respiring like an animal, said Beyenal.

Like cyanobacteria, these generally single - celled organisms draw energy through photosynthesis, with many living as symbionts inside coral.

The scientists are part of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), a DOE Energy Innovation Hub, whose goal is to convert CO2 into high - value chemical products like liquid fuels.

These partners are called heterotrophs, since they rely on the anammox bacteria — which are primary producers (or autotrophs), like plants capable of photosynthesis — to turn atmospheric carbon dioxide into organic carbon.

S. caninervis is unique because its leaf surfaces must be wet for photosynthesis to occur, and its root - like structures (rhizoids) do not collect water from the soil.

Engineered plants conserve 25 percent more water by only partially opening their mouth - like stomata, allowing less water to escape through transpiration while carbon dioxide enters the plant to fuel photosynthesis.

Photosynthesis allows them to take in the latter directly from the air, but they have to procure nitrogen through their roots in the form of organic molecules like ammonia or urea.

Like plants on land, phytoplankton produce energy by photosynthesis, pulling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to fuel the process.

Like CGL71, these clusters are critical for the first stage of photosynthesis, where they move electrons in order to create the energy molecules.

«Like most plants, wheat photosynthesises through its leaves, but we've discovered there is also photosynthesis in the seed.

According to University of British Columbia (UBC) research published this week in Scientific Reports, 30 per cent of the microbes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Kabuno Bay grow by a type of photosynthesis that oxidizes (rusts) iron rather than converting water into oxygen like plants and algae.

Harmful oxygen species, like reactive oxygen species (ROS), are particularly generated via photosynthesis under fluctuating light and high light stress.

Like all plants, mangroves fix carbon dioxide from the air through photosynthesis and return organic material to the soil when they decompose.

A new catalyst created by U of T Engineering researchers brings them one step closer to artificial photosynthesis — a system that, just like plants, would use renewable energy to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into stored chemical energy.

The researchers from Bochum, on the other hand, take advantage of the fact that, like plants, cyanobacteria perform photosynthesis.

Today, photosynthesis is considered «the most important chemical reaction on earth», providing food for humans and animals, releasing oxygen for them to breathe — and millions of years later, this process provides fossil fuel in the form of oil, coal and natural gas, as Michel likes to point out.

This plant may look like an ordinary tobacco plant, but on the inside it was engineered to express bacteria proteins which helps it perform more efficient photosynthesis.

Like a plant, these algae use photosynthesis to make food.

They usually take the form of chloroplasts, which like cyanobacteria contain chlorophyll and produce organic compounds (such as glucose) through photosynthesis.

«You want to make something that is like gasoline with similar properties but in a renewable fashion — that's what artificial photosynthesis will do,» he said.

Long points out that farming techniques like altering photosynthesis are important because they don't require additional land.

Prof. Su's current research fields include the design, the synthesis, the property study and the molecular engineering of nanostructures and highly organized and hierarchically self - assembled porous materials, bio-integrated living and bio-inspired materials including leaf - like materials by the immobilization of living organisms and biomaterials for catalysis, photocatalysis, CO2 reduction and water splitting, artificial photosynthesis, nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, energy storage and conversion, cell therapy and biomedical applications.

Organisms like plants and algae use sunlight for photosynthesis to create oxygen and other important by - products.

Just like plants, cyanobacteria can produce energy out of sunlight, via the process called photosynthesis.

The FOUR diagrams are: • Photosynthesis Equation • Photosynthesis Overview • Light Reactions • Calvin Cycle NGSS Alignment: HS - LS 1 - 5, HS - LS2 - 5 Key Terms Include: • ADP • ATP • ATP Synthase • Calvin Cycle • chloroplast • Light Reactions • G3P • NADP + • NADPH • photon • Photosystems I and II • RuBP • stroma • thylakoids You might also like my: • Cellular Respiration Diagrams and Study Guide: https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/cellular-respiration-diagrams-and-study-guide-11148774 • ATP Diagrams and Study Guide: https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/atp-diagrams-and-study-guide-11128575 • Photosynthesis PowerPoint and Notes: https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/photosynthesis-powerpoint-and-notes-11133491 • Photosynthesis Task Cards: https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/photosynthesis-task-cards-with-powerpoint-review-11133598 Happy Teaching!

The plant - like algae use photosynthesis to grow, creating oxygen as a byproduct that nourishes the coral polyps.

Tracing the relationship of microorganisms like stromatolites and cyanobacteria to photosynthesis through to the development of the ozone layer, Rocha Pitta creates a rich visual tapestry that reinvigorates this narrative and makes it feel immediate to contemporary life, particularly as we consider our role in the continued transformation of our planet.

Much like the idea of vibronic interactions we reported on two years ago, it turns out that plants have evolved their solar energy technology (proteins in photosynthesis) to work at the quantum level.

«If we can directly store solar energy as a chemical fuel, like what nature does with photosynthesis, we could solve a fundamental challenge of renewable energy...»