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IIRC, PSI in the photosynthetic complex comes from purple bacteria, and PSII from green sulfur bacteria, so cyanos (and thus chloroplasts) kind of "already are"
by throwawaymaths 1y ago
IIRC, PSI in the photosynthetic complex comes from purple bacteria, and PSII from green sulfur bacteria, so cyanos (and thus chloroplasts) kind of "already are" "using both". one presumes the option to use both pigments in the harvesting sense has been sampled evolutionarily.
- throwawaymaths 1y agooops i got them backwards, psII comes from purple.