2. Photosynthesis
is the process by which plants, some bacteria,
and some protistans use the energy from
sunlight to produce sugar, which cellular
respiration converts into ATP, the "fuel" used by
all living things.
The conversion of unusable sunlight energy
into usable chemical energy, is associated with
the actions of the green pigment chlorophyll.
3. Overall reaction of this process as:
“six molecules of water plus six molecules
of carbon dioxide produce one molecule of
sugar plus six molecules of oxygen”
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4. Two Parts of
Photosynthesismembrane
Light Reaction
---happens in the thylakoid
and converts light energy to chemical
energy.
Dark reaction
---takes place in the stroma within the
chloroplast, and converts CO2 to sugar.
Light Dark
5. Light Reaction
Thea series ofreactions through
In light reactions or light-
dependent reactions energy isthe
electron transport the of
photosynthesis are the first step of
converted into ATP and NADPH along
photosynthesis in which light energy is
anconverted transport process. Duringthe
electron into chemical energy, in
this process water is split carriers ATP and
form of the energy rich and releases
oxygen as a by-product of the reaction.
NADPH. In the light reactions light
The ATP and NADPH are used to make a
strikes the green pigment chlorophyll
c-c bonds in Calvin cycle. a higher energy
and excite electrons to
state
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6. Dark Reaction
Dark reaction or Calvin cycle can be
represented as follows
3 CO2 + 9 ATP + 6 NADPH -->
glyceraldehyde-3-phosphte + 9 ADP + 8 Pi
+ 6 NADP+
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