Yes, plants can photosynthesize! They're sort of magical that way. We can't-I think if that as one of the fundamental differences between animals and plants.
Plants have both mitochondria and chloroplasts. The chloroplasts turn the sun's light energy into glucose and then the mitochondria turn that glucose into ATP. The mitos can't turn sunlight into ATP directly in either plants or animals. That's just not their job.
Our energy ultimately comes from the sun, but through the food chain-eating plants and animals, not from the sun directly.
I also think Mother Nature is just wonderful. But I also think that if we are really to appreciate her, we have to understand what she's really doing. Sunlight, energy, plants, and animals all form a lovely web of interconnection. But it doesn't work like Kruse says it does.
Plants have both mitochondria and chloroplasts. The chloroplasts turn the sun's light energy into glucose and then the mitochondria turn that glucose into ATP. The mitos can't turn sunlight into ATP directly in either plants or animals. That's just not their job.
Our energy ultimately comes from the sun, but through the food chain-eating plants and animals, not from the sun directly.
I also think Mother Nature is just wonderful. But I also think that if we are really to appreciate her, we have to understand what she's really doing. Sunlight, energy, plants, and animals all form a lovely web of interconnection. But it doesn't work like Kruse says it does.
The apparent photosensitivity of the mitochondrial electron transport apparatus is a relatively new addition to biological science
The mitochondrial electron transport chain no doubt shares an evolutionary relationship with the photosynthetic electron transport chain.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996814/
Ah well ,it's too complicated ,for my understanding sunlight contains infrared light,and infrared light causes mitochondria to produce more ATP
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