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Life on earth is carbon bases, in fact if we ignore the water in cells almost 50% of everything is carbon. Plants have the carbon monopoloy: trapped inside them are literaly billions of tons of org...anic carbon. Plants absorb inorganic carbon from carbon dioxide in the air and convert it into organic carbon. But this biochemical process wouldn't happen if it wasn't for the sun; the power behind the biochemical factory turning carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrate and oxygen: the fire of life. In this programme we show how everything on earth is ultimately powered by the sun and by powering the synthesis of the compunds of life it gives us both the building blocks of our very cells and the fuel to make it all work.
Life on earth is carbon bases, in fact if we ignore the water in cells almost 50% of everything is carbon. Plants have the carbon monopoloy: trapped inside them are literaly billions of tons of org...anic carbon. Plants absorb inorganic carbon from carbon dioxide in the air and convert it into organic carbon. But this biochemical process wouldn't happen if it wasn't for the sun; the power behind the biochemical factory turning carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrate and oxygen: the fire of life. In this programme we show how everything on earth is ultimately powered by the sun and by powering the synthesis of the compunds of life it gives us both the building blocks of our very cells and the fuel to make it all work.
| Module code and title: | S102, Science: a foundation course |
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| Item code: | S102; 22 |
| First transmission date: | 1988 |
| Published: | 1988 |
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| Duration: | 00:25:00 |
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| Producer: | Mike Gunton |
| Contributor: | Robert Cordell |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Mitochondria; Organic carbon; Oxydation; Water molecules |
| Subject terms: | Carbon; Cells; Glucose--Metabolism; Photosynthesis; Plants--Absorption of water; Biochemistry; Photosynthesis |
| Master spool number: | HOU5956 |
| Production number: | FOUS509E |
| Videofinder number: | 1981 |
| Available to public: | no |
