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The Path of Carbon in Photosynthesis. XIV.
Author(s) -
Melvin Calvin,
James A. Bassham,
A.A. Benson,
Shinichi Kawaguchi,
Victoria H. Lynch,
W. Stepka,
N. E. Tolbert
Publication year - 1951
Publication title -
osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/915049
Subject(s) - photosynthesis , variety (cybernetics) , process (computing) , carbon dioxide , path (computing) , carbon fibers , energy (signal processing) , sunlight , astrobiology , environmental science , computer science , biochemical engineering , botany , ecology , biology , physics , engineering , artificial intelligence , optics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , composite number , programming language , operating system
It seems hardly necessary to repeat to an audience of this kind the importance of the process known as photosynthesis in the interaction and the interdependence of organisms and in the very existence of life as we know it. This process by which green plants are able to capture electromagnetic energy in the form of sunlight and transform it into stored chemical energy in the form of a wide variety of reduced (relative to carbon dioxide) carbon compounds provides the only major source of energy for the maintenance and propagation of all life

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