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Seeing How Plants Split Water Could Provide Key to Our Future Energy Needs
Science, Feb. 2004

The possibility of using the Earth's abundant supply of water as a cheap source of hydrogen is a step closer thanks to researchers from Imperial College London. By mimicking the method that plants use to split water, researchers say that a highly energy-efficient way to form cheap supplies of hydrogen fuel is possible in the future.

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Active Reading Questions

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    During photosynthesis, sunlight splits a water molecule to yield which of the following products?
    a) hydrogen
    b) oxygen
    c) an excited electron
    d) all of the above
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    The splitting of water at the photosystems occurs during the ___________ reactions.
    a) dark reactions
    b) light reactions
    c) Calvin reactions
    d) Krebs cycle
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    Where do the light reactions of photosynthesis occur? Be sure to discuss what type of organism as well as what structures are involved.
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