Pete A. Ensminger
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300088045
- eISBN:
- 9780300133523
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300088045.003.0015
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Climate
This chapter discusses the diversity of life, its classification into Eukarya, Eubacteria, and Archaea and their evolutionary relationships. It further investigates Halobacterium salinarum, which ...
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This chapter discusses the diversity of life, its classification into Eukarya, Eubacteria, and Archaea and their evolutionary relationships. It further investigates Halobacterium salinarum, which completely lacks chlorophyll but uses bacteriorhodopsin to perform photosynthesis and sunlight as a source of energy and information. The mechanism of photosynthesis is also analyzed. This chapter also discusses bacteriorhodopsin-based computers and the study of chemical dynamics of proteins. The sensory rhodopsins that are present in Halobacterium are also discussed.Less
This chapter discusses the diversity of life, its classification into Eukarya, Eubacteria, and Archaea and their evolutionary relationships. It further investigates Halobacterium salinarum, which completely lacks chlorophyll but uses bacteriorhodopsin to perform photosynthesis and sunlight as a source of energy and information. The mechanism of photosynthesis is also analyzed. This chapter also discusses bacteriorhodopsin-based computers and the study of chemical dynamics of proteins. The sensory rhodopsins that are present in Halobacterium are also discussed.
