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Chlorophylls? #

By Jonathan Richards Posted Friday 27th July 2007 22:02 GMT

> a quarter of a million chlorophylls

Chlorophyll is the name of the pigment that captures solar photons for the beginning of the photosynthetic pathway. I haven't read TFA, but green plants contain their chlorophyll in organelles called chloroplasts. 250K chlorophylls just doesn't sound right.

Chlorophylls. #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Saturday 28th July 2007 14:29 GMT

I think the article must mean 250k chlorophyll *molecules* per chlorosome. Seems about order-of-magnitude right for a large antenna complex.

Its life, Lucy, but not as we know it #

By Alistair Posted Tuesday 31st July 2007 15:50 GMT

Fascinating. Could this be similar to some of the very first bacterial life forms to emerge on Earth?

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