Fun Facts About Photosynthesis

Описание: I made this video with the help of the Jonikas lab, a group of plant biologists studying algae.

This includes:

Liz Freeman Rosenzweig
Vivian Chen
Tingting Xiang
Michelle Davison
Matthew Prior
Luke Mackinder
Nina Ivanova
Yuval Kaye
Adam Idoine
Rick Kim
Robert Jinkerson
Frieder Fauser


The making of the song and video was funded by the NSF.

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All of the energy
on the entire earth
It all comes from the sun
Captured by the plants
From the time you’re dead
All the way back to your birth
The oxygen you breathe
When you’re sleeping and when you dance

Here comes sunlight
Photons hit chlorophyll
Electrons get excited
And move all around until
It creates cash money
That the plant can spend
To do what it needs honey
And then it all starts again

The sugar that you eat is stored sunlight
Photosynthesis, you can see it from space
Before photosynthesis evolved on our planet
There wasn’t any oxygen up in this place

Here comes Rubisco
A big enzyme
Part of the photo
Synthesis assembly line
It’s the most abundant
Protein that we know
It fixes C02
In the photosynthesis flow

Photosynthesis,
has been found
On the ocean floor
where there’s no sunlight
Elysia chlorotica
is a sea slug
It eats algae
and can photosynthesize




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