Re: [DIYbio] What's the rationale behind the similarities between chlorophyll and hemoglobin?

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Cory Geesaman <cory@geesaman.com> wrote:
> My best guess at the moment is that since chlorophyll is designed to channel
> light via entanglement to turn it into usable energy that the similar
> molecular machinery can be used to turn slight vibrations into enough energy
> to eject the Oxygen in hemoglobin - but I don't actually have a clue and
> it's mostly pseudoscience which pops up when I do a search on Google. Does
> anyone know the answer to this?

I thought hemoglobin was just a pH responsive chelator, while
chlorophyll was more like an antenna+diode... as for rationale... can
you really ask that of evolution?

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