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Definition of Light reaction
1. Noun. The first stage of photosynthesis during which energy from light is used for the production of ATP.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Light Reaction
Literary usage of Light reaction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"Dr. Pickett said that in testing the light reaction it is customary to have ...
In studying doubtful cases of light reaction, he thought we should take both ..."
2. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"The temperature coefficient of the dark reaction (chemical) is 2'8, that of the
light reaction, 1 '1 or less. 2. Complex Reactions with Increase of Energy. ..."
3. The Journal of General Physiology by Society of General Physiologists, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"The velocity of the light reaction, S —> P + A, is entirely dependent on the
intensity of the incident light. The exact relation between ..."
4. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Formerly, it was believed that the periphery of the retina as well as the region
of the macula mediated the light reaction, ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"The direct light reaction was perceptibly sluggish in one or •usually both eyes
in 15 patients, or 21 per cent. The direct light reaction was entirely ..."
6. Contributions to the Study of the Behavior of Lower Organisms by Herbert Spencer Jennings (1904)
"This variability and inconstancy run through all manifestations of the light
reaction in Stentor. A word further needs to be said as to the behavior of ..."
7. Text-book of Ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1911)
"e abolished along wit li tin' light reaction (absolute [or total] ... For the
method of testing the light reaction see page 75. ..."
8. The Eye and Nervous System: Their Diagnostic Relations by William Campbell Posey, William Gibson Spiller (1906)
"It was also frequently aident when the light reaction was sluggish, and this was
also frequently the case even when the light reflex was still preserved. ..."
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