Sentences with phrase «producing photosynthesis»

Identification of a gene needed to expand light harvesting in photosynthesis into the far - red - light spectrum provides clues to the development of oxygen - producing photosynthesis, an evolutionary advance that changed the history of life on Earth.

Around 2.7 billion years ago the first oxygen - producing photosynthesis evolved in the oceans.

This limits the availability of sun light and forces the leaves to work harder to produce photosynthesis, and the result is higher levels of chlorophyll.

Since we are talking about the solar spectrum, then it easily can produce photosynthesis, as «IPCCscience» would predict.

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

The fossil record showed that before the ice emerged, some dinoflagellates produced their own energy via photosynthesis; others fed on photosynthesising algae.

The algae produce food by photosynthesis, and the coral protects them.

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.

Professor Tim Lenton and Dr Stuart Daines of the University of Exeter Geography department, created a computer model to explain how oxygen stabilised at low levels and failed to rise any further, despite oxygen already being produced by early photosynthesis.

They produced oxygen by photosynthesis, and sometimes the oxygen got trapped as bubbles within sticky microbial mats.

Mycorrhizal fungi live in the roots of host plants, where they exchange sugars that plants produce by photosynthesis for mineral nutrients that fungi absorb from the soil.

And the satellite will also spy on plants» carbon uptake by measuring the weak fluorescence that is produced by chlorophyll during photosynthesis.

For this reason methanol fuel cells will be used, where the combination of methanol and oxygen produces water and carbon dioxide as a waste product (note that the carbon footprint in this case is neutral in that the methanol will be produced by photosynthesis, removing CO2 from the atmosphere).

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

They remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — producing oxygen through photosynthesis and, in another process, forming the calcite plates that Huxley found so interesting.

A chemistry professor in Florida has just found a way to trigger the process of photosynthesis in a synthetic material, turning greenhouse gases into clean air and producing energy all at the same time.

Nitrogen helps plants produce proteins, including the key molecules that control photosynthesis.

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.

«Triggering artificial photosynthesis to clean air: Process produces energy at the same time.»

Micro-organisms were certainly present before 3.0 billion years ago but they were not likely capable of producing O2 by photosynthesis.

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.

It is produced during photosynthesis in plants, for example, and its production in skin cells has been linked to aging and cancer development.

Scientists are learning to mimic nature to produce clean energy, by re-creating photosynthesis in the lab.

Professor Henry said photosynthesis — the process by which plants converted sunlight into energy for growth and produce oxygen — was arguably the most important biological process on earth.

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

Basta kills plants by «choking» them on the ammonia they produce during photosynthesis.

Carbon dioxide produced during burning is fed to growing algae which recycle it through photosynthesis.

Professor Martin A. J. Parry of the Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) said: «Improving the efficiency of photosynthesis — the way crops turn carbon dioxide in our atmosphere into everything we can eat — may seem ambitious but for us it offers the best opportunity for producing the scale of change in crop yield that we need to feed a growing global population in a changing world climate.»

«Photosynthesis was such a powerful invention that it changed Earth's atmosphere by producing oxygen, allowing diverse and complex life forms — algae, plants, and animals — to evolve.»

These microbes conduct photosynthesis: using sunshine, water and carbon dioxide to produce carbohydrates and, yes, oxygen.

Life is the dominant source of the molecular oxygen on our planet, as the gas is produced by photosynthesis in plants and microscopic, single - cell organisms.

Grassle's work ultimately revealed that a diverse community of organisms thrives along deep - sea hydrothermal vents, feasting on organic matter produced by sulfur - oxidizing bacteria instead of photosynthesis.

In photosynthesis, sunlight and heat make chemical energy (in the form of wood or fossil fuel); fire uses chemical energy to produce light and heat.

OCO - 2 will also closely monitor the carbon uptake of plants by measuring the weak fluorescence that is produced during photosynthesis as plants» chlorophyll pigments absorb light to capture energy and subsequently re-emit photons at longer wavelengths.

«The biological clock ensures that a plant times its metabolism according to the environment,» says Dorothee Staiger, «thus enabling it to directly use the first rays of sunlight for photosynthesis to produce carbohydrates, for example.»

«A very promising route to making a carbon - containing fuel is to hydrogenate carbon dioxide (or carbon monoxide) using solar - produced hydrogen,» said Fujita, who leads the artificial photosynthesis group in the Brookhaven Chemistry Department.

In a process called photosynthesis, light energy is used to produce biochemical energy and the oxygen we breathe.

They focused on sugars, which are produced in the leaves by photosynthesis and transported through tubes 20 times narrower than a human hair to roots and new shoots.

Microbes in the oceans produce 50 % of the oxygen we breathe, and — through photosynthesis — remove roughly the same proportion of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

The earth's early oceans initially contained little oxygen, but cyanobacteria produce it as a by - product of photosynthesis.

Using nondestructive neutron scattering techniques, scientists are examining how single - celled organisms called cyanobacteria produce oxygen and obtain energy through photosynthesis.

Because producing oxygen from splitting water is a barrier to using artificial photosynthesis (the splitting of water into H ₂ and O ₂ as a renewable energy, many research programs focus on designing catalysts that assist with this oxygen - producing step.

Under red dwarf stars, plant - type life on land may not be possible because photosynthesis might not generate sufficient energy from infrared light to produce the oxygen needed to block dangerous ultraviolet light from such stars at the very close orbital distances needed for a planet to be warmed enough to have liquid water on its surface.

PASADENA >> Caltech researchers have produced an «artificial leaf» that uses sunlight to generate fuel free of carbon emissions in a process 10 times more efficient than photosynthesis.

This time, the researchers injected blue - green algae in the hearts of anesthetized mice and exposed them to light, mimicking photosynthesis that produced enough oxygen to keep the mice hearts beating.

Living in colonies, the cyanobacteria produced oxygen during the process of photosynthesis, which generated the oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere that many living beings require today.

Ancestors of today's cyanobacteria developed photosynthesis, a process that uses energy from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to produce carbohydrates.

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

These chemicals are known as «biomarkers,» and the discovery of O2 in one of these distant atmospheres may lead us to believe that something biological is producing the molecule, as plants do on Earth through photosynthesis.

But what if human beings could mimic photosynthesis and use sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to produce fuels that generate electricity or power our cars and aeroplanes?