{"id":671,"date":"2018-05-03T18:04:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T18:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/chapter\/introduction-9\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T17:24:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T17:24:06","slug":"introduction-9","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/chapter\/introduction-9\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction","rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"raw":"<div id=\"fig-ch08_00_01\" class=\"splash\">\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"600\"]<img src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3206\/2018\/05\/03180420\/Figure_08_00_01.jpg\" alt=\"The image shows a map of the world, colored by the levels of chlorophyll a on land and in the ocean.\" width=\"600\" height=\"738\" \/> <strong> Figure 1.<\/strong> This world map shows Earth\u2019s distribution of photosynthetic activity determined by chlorophyll a concentrations. On land, chlorophyll is evident from terrestrial plants, and within oceanic zones, from chlorophyll from phytoplankton. (credit: modification of work by SeaWiFS Project, NASA\/Goddard Space Flight Center and ORBIMAGE)[\/caption]\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p id=\"fs-idp164680880\">The metabolic processes in all organisms\u2014from bacteria to humans\u2014require energy. To get this energy, many organisms access stored energy by eating, that is, by ingesting other organisms. But where does the stored energy in food originate? All of this energy can be traced back to photosynthesis.<\/p>","rendered":"<div id=\"fig-ch08_00_01\" class=\"splash\">\n<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3206\/2018\/05\/03180420\/Figure_08_00_01.jpg\" alt=\"The image shows a map of the world, colored by the levels of chlorophyll a on land and in the ocean.\" width=\"600\" height=\"738\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong> Figure 1.<\/strong> This world map shows Earth\u2019s distribution of photosynthetic activity determined by chlorophyll a concentrations. On land, chlorophyll is evident from terrestrial plants, and within oceanic zones, from chlorophyll from phytoplankton. (credit: modification of work by SeaWiFS Project, NASA\/Goddard Space Flight Center and ORBIMAGE)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"fs-idp164680880\">The metabolic processes in all organisms\u2014from bacteria to humans\u2014require energy. To get this energy, many organisms access stored energy by eating, that is, by ingesting other organisms. But where does the stored energy in food originate? All of this energy can be traced back to photosynthesis.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-671\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Biology 2e. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: OpenStax. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/openstax.org\/details\/books\/biology-2e\">https:\/\/openstax.org\/details\/books\/biology-2e<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Download for free at http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/8d50a0af-948b-4204-a71d-4826cba765b8@8.19<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":311,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Biology 2e\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"OpenStax\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/openstax.org\/details\/books\/biology-2e\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"Download for free at http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/8d50a0af-948b-4204-a71d-4826cba765b8@8.19\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-671","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":669,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/671\/revisions\/2476"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/669"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/671\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-osbiology2e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}