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Photosynthesis

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Photosynthesis synthesises organic compounds, including carbohydrates, from carbon dioxide using light energy. Gene Ontology identifies it as the biological process GO:0015979.

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A process definition is not an organism name. It connects articles about different organisms and structures while preserving their separate scientific identities.

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Photosystem II is one molecular participant in oxygenic photosynthesis. Its reaction centre uses light in electron transfer from water. A separate article connects this complex to an exact D1 protein record.

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Chloroplast

A chloroplast is a chlorophyll-containing plastid. It contains thylakoids and stroma, with some thylakoids organised into stacks called grana.

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Photosystem II

Photosystem II is a molecular complex associated with pigments and electron carriers. In chloroplasts and cyanobacteria it uses light to transfer electrons from water to plastoquinone.

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GO:0015979 · photosynthesis
2026-09-09T01:17:01.233038+00:00 · CC-BY-4.0
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GO:0009523 · photosystem II
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GO:0009507 · chloroplast
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Arabidopsis thaliana, first leaf of control seedling grown without added NaCl; Figure 3A
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UniProt P83755 · entry 161 / sequence 2
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Updated: 2026-09-09