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light harvesting complex
- Definition
- A pigment-protein complex that harvests light energy and converts it to exciton energy that can migrate to the photosynthetic reaction center where photosynthesis occurs. The light is absorbed by pigment molecules (e.g., chlorophyll, bacteriochlorophyll, carotenoids, phycobilin) that are attached to the protein.
- Definition Source
- NAL Thesaurus Staff
- Used For
- chlorophyll antenna
- chlorophyll antennae
- light-harvesting antenna complex
- light-harvesting antenna complexes
- light-harvesting antenna proteins
- light-harvesting antenna systems
- light-harvesting center
- light harvesting antennae
- light harvesting complex 1
- light harvesting complex 2
- light harvesting complex I
- light harvesting complex II
- Spanish
- complejo captador de luz