Sentences with phrase «photosynthesis which»

(Some of the energy is also stored in vegetation through the photosynthesis which uses energy from the sun to convert H2O and CO2 into oxygen and cellulose, but that is a longer time perspective.)

It sucks up a lot of CO2; One site noted that «Bamboo plantations are large factories for photosynthesis which reduces greenhouse gases.

The circulation of CO2 in and out of the atmosphere is due mainly to the photosynthesis which takes CO2 molecules out from the atmosphere and the returning of these molecules to the atmosphere by means of combustion and moldering.

Thus CO2 is not a hormone disruptor, in many cases it is the limiting factor, even at low fertilizer availability, and it simply is the necessary building block for photosynthesis which, at current levels, is in short supply.

Yet there is absolutely no evidence that all this CO2 in the atmosphere was ever a problem; on the contrary it led to photosynthesis which gives us life - giving oxygen.

This prevention of going over 3C would include a combination of GHG reductions brought about by energy policy and possibly some geoengineering techniques (maybe even artificial photosynthesis which uses up CO2 and produces useful energy)..

Light converts to chemical energy, not heat energy, in photosynthesis which is the creation of sugars.

Science class teaches the essential role that chlorophyll plays in absorption of light to aid in photosynthesis which is how plants create energy.

The Sun is important because it provides the Earth heat, it creates our daylight by emiting electromagnetic radiation, it allows plants to grow via photosynthesis which in turn absorb carbon dioxide and create oxygen.

Not exact matches

But a paper published in the journal Nature in 2007, which we learned about from a BBC Earth story and is still making the rounds among scientists, suggests that the key to photosynthesis might work only due to a totally bizarre effect of quantum physics.

This has to do with the photosynthesis on the basis of which our foods and fibers and forest products are produced.

«We want to incorporate this natural energy booster into rice, which usually just has C3 photosynthesis, so that it can achieve much higher yields,» he added.

Can you guess which part is represents the chorplasts (the organelle where photosynthesis occurs)?

The goal was to improve artificial photosynthesis, which can aid food production.

Here, we show for the first time that during severe drought, the rate at which they «inhale» carbon through photosynthesis can decrease.

Symbiogenesis recognizes that the mitochondria [the energy factories] in animal, plant, and fungal cells came from oxygen - respiring bacteria and that chloroplasts in plants and algae — which perform photosynthesis — came from cyanobacteria.

Church and colleagues are also adapting the approach for use with other useful bacteria, including Shewanella, which can convert toxic metals such as uranium into an insoluble form, and cyanobacteria which can extract energy from light using photosynthesis.

The team suspects it has to do with photosynthesis, which leads to more water vapor in the air.

The BPEC cell developed by the researchers is based on the naturally occurring process of photosynthesis in plants, in which light drives electrons that produce storable chemical energetic molecules, that are the fuels of all cells in the animal and plant worlds.

Purdue University physicists are part of an international group using spinach to study the proteins involved in photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert the sun's energy into carbohydrates used to power cellular processes.

She and other experts note there is an exception for certain types of plants such as corn, which access CO2 for photosynthesis in a unique way.

Increased levels of CO2 accelerate plant growth, which causes more absorption of CO2 through photosynthesis.

Silt - bearing runoff from many activities including construction sites, forestry and farms can inhibit the penetration of sunlight through the water column restricting photosynthesis and causing blanketing of the lake or river bed which in turns damages the ecology.

«A higher concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere would aid photosynthesis, which in turn contributes to increased plant growth,» Rep. Lamar Smith (R — Texas) wrote in an op - ed last year.

Among other things, they have seen regularly recurring platelets in each cell, which they believe are parts of chloroplasts, the organelles within plant cells where photosynthesis takes place.

The corals eat but don't digest these single - celled photosynthetic algae, which then reside inside the corals and feed them the carbon sugars created during 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.

These organelles, which perform photosynthesis in green plants, are descendants of formerly free - living cyanobacteria, which are prokaryotes that lack an RNAi system.

Before the development of photosynthesis, which creates oxygen, Earth's surface was bombarded by ultraviolet radiation and was relatively inhospitable to life.

Helicosporidium, on the other hand, lost almost nothing except those genes required for photosynthesis, which it no longer needs as a parasite.

Jansen says drought stress causes bubbles of gas to be brought into plants» water transport tubes, which blocks water from reaching leaves and in turn halts the food - creating process of photosynthesis.

In a recreation of Theodore Engelmann's 1883 experiment, in which he discovered that blue and red light were most favorable for photosynthesis, a skylight in the lobby will admit light that will be refracted by a prism and lenses intended to represent the optics of a microscope.

Daniel Nocera, a chemist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says his work paves the way for a form of artificial photosynthesis, in which solar energy can be stored efficiently for later use.

The algae or bacteria produce carbohydrates through photosynthesis, some of which are absorbed by the fungi.

or stomata, the tiny openings on the leaf surface through which plants absorb gases needed for photosynthesis, can provide clues to land elevation over time.

Along with my colleagues Dave Johnston and Ann Pearson at Harvard and NASA's Felisa Wolfe - Simon, I hypothesize that biological feedback cycles, including one involving sulfide - based photosynthesis, would tend to maintain this world in which oxygen levels remain low and sulfide high [for the next «boring» billion years].

Researchers at CEA, CNRS and Université d'Aix - Marseille have investigated a signaling pathway, scarcely studied until now, which was already present in the bacterial ancestor of chloroplast, the compartment where photosynthesis takes place.

Nitrogen helps plants produce proteins, including the key molecules that control photosynthesis, the process by which the sun's energy is captured and converted into the carbon compounds that are the raw material for growth.

«The way carbon gets buried usually starts with photosynthesis, through which carbon dioxide is converted to organic material in the form of plankton, marsh grass, mangroves, or sea grass,» he said.

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.

«There may be less photosynthesis in the wet season because of the cloud cover which limits the amount of light the plants can use.»

Photosynthesis — the process green plants use to convert energy from the sun that plants use to grow — from tropical forests, plays a huge role in determining global atmospheric CO2 concentration, which is closely linked the global temperature and rate of climate change.

It has been theorized that the major cause of bleaching is the result of chloroplast damage due to heat stress, which results in the production of toxic, highly reactive oxygen molecules during photosynthesis.

«Marine ecosystems everywhere to the north will be increasingly starved for nutrients, leading to less primary production (photosynthesis) by phytoplankton, which form the base of ocean food chains.»

Photosynthesis reactions occur in chloroplasts, which are the intracellular compartments in green organs, mainly in leaves.

The researchers also measured each tree's photosynthesis, which is how trees capture carbon from the atmosphere and is a key marker of tree health.

Green leaves use energy from sunlight through photosynthesis to chemically combine carbon dioxide drawn in from the air with water and nutrients tapped from the ground to produce sugars, which are the main source of food, fiber and fuel for life on Earth.

Photosynthesis, the process by which plants, algae, and select bacteria convert the sun's light energy into chemical energy, takes place in a cellular organelle called the chloroplast.

Certain bacteria which need light are able to eat dissolved iron (Fe2 +) and to carry out photosynthesis in the presence of sunlight.

Metabolism isn't just for individual organisms: Researchers apply the term to the processes through which entire natural ecosystems acquire and maintain (or lose) resilience, such as predator - prey balance and levels of photosynthesis.