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Oh, my. Hello, you're listening to The Science of Everything podcast, episode 102, Photosynthesis Part 2.

I'm your host, James Fodor.

So in the previous episode, we began talking about photosynthesis.

In particular, I discussed an overview of what photosynthesis is, and I talked about

photosystem 2 and how that absorbs light in the chlorophyll molecules and how

the electrons are excited and pass through different components of the photosystem 2, eventually

passed on to Plastic Quinone, which diffuses through the thylacoid membrane, and is passed on

to cytochrome C complex, and I explained how that process is used to pump hydrogen ions across

from outside to inside the phylochoid membrane, and how that is used to generate a proton gradient.

So that's what we got up to at the end of the previous episode, and if that's all very unfamiliar

or you've forgotten, recommend relistenlistening to that because I'm just going

to pick up from where I left off there. In this episode, I'm going to start by explaining

how the oxygen evolving complex provides electrons that are subsequently energized by the

absorption of light and then pass through photosystem 2 and so on. I'm going to explain how

these electrons are sourced from, ultimately from water via the

oxygen-in-volving complex.

So this is a critical component to the process that I'll start by explaining, and then I'll

proceed by finishing off the story of photosynthesis by talking about Photosystem 1 and then ADP

reductase, and then also looking at the light

independent reactions and some other aspects of photosynthesis. So then let's begin by talking about

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