Plants acquire carbon and energy through photosynthesis


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Readings: Lambers pgs. 58-61, 323-345
Today's lecture focuses on the basic processes and integration of processes invovled in photosynthesis. The relationships between structure, biochemistry, and adaption are discussed in terms of climatic variation and the environmental forces that have shaped the adaptive response of photosynthetic carbon assimilation from primitive to advanced plant life forms.