Chlorosomes Notes: Definitions & Explanations PDF | Download eBooks
Study Chlorosomes lecture notes PDF with microbiology definitions and explanation to study What are Chlorosomes?. Study chlorosomes explanation with microbiology terms to review microbiology course for online degree programs.
Chlorosomes Definition:
Elongated, intramembranous vesicles found in the green sulfur and nonsulfur bacteria; they contain light-harvesting pigments. Sometimes called chlorobium vesicles.
Prescott's Microbiology 9th Edition by Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood, Christopher J. Woolverton
Chlorosomes Notes:
A chlorosome, commonly found in green sulfur bacteria and a few green filamentous anoxygenic phototrophs, is basically a photosynthetic antenna complex. They are different from other antenna complexes, because of their large size. They also do not have a protein matrix supporting the photosynthetic pigments.
Keep Learning with Microbiology Notes
What are Biochemical Pathways?
Biochemical pathways are a series of chemical reaction that are taking place in a cell. The products, intermediates and reactants ...
What is Anaerobic Digestion?
Anaerobic digestion is a type of digestion is which microorganisms break down the organic matter in a chemical process that ...
What is Chemostat?
A Chemostat (stat: static) is a bioreactor. As fresh liquid is continuously added to it, the culture liquid containing leftover ...
What is Carotenoid?
Carotenoids, also known as tetraterpenoids, are red, yellow and orange organic pigments that are produced by algae and plants and ...
What is Antisense RNA?
Antisense RNA also known as natural antisense transcript, antisense oligonucleotide or as asantisense transcript, is a single stranded RNA that ...
What is Autochthonous?
Autochthonous are the substances or nutrients that initiate from a given environment and remain native to that environment. The example ...
