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n. - A substance in photosensitive microorganisms that is related to but different from the green coloring material of higher plants.

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  • The figure shows how the photosynthetically active components bacteriochlorophyll (BK), bacteriopheophytin (BF), quinone
  • The FMO is a trimer of proteins, each of which contains seven bacteriochlorophyll-a molecules.
  • In their work, the scientists have shown that that the states of these bacteriochlorophyll-a molecules could be entangled to one another.
  • His team examined a bacteriochlorophyll complex found in green sulphur bacteria and discovered that the pigment molecules were similarly wired together in a quantum...
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