Photosynthesis

Aaron Watson-Sharer, Talya Laver, Ali Driggers, Xavier Carroll

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What is photosynthesis and what does it do?

• Light energy chemical energy
• Sunlight, Carbon Dioxide, Water
• Glucose, Oxygen

What does photosynthesis look like.

A simple way of looking at photosynthesis is...

A more complex way of looking at photosynthesis is...

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What is the equation for photosynthesis?

Organelle Structure

Bacteria has three packs:

Cyanobacteria:

• Allows oxygenic photosynthesis to take place
• Electric doner is water

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Green bacteria:

• Allows anoxygenic photosynthesis to take place
• Molecules used as electron sources and to produce NADH and NADPH
• Photosynthetic system located in chlorosomes

Purple bacteria

• Aids anoxygenic photosynthesis
• Molecules used as electron sources and to produce NADH and NADPH
• Photosynthetic system located in membrane system

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Why is photosynthesis essential?

• Process: plants obtain energy
• Survival of the plants
• Output: Oxygen, glucose
• Plants are a necessary part of our world; we work as a cycle.

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Vocabulary

Photosynthesis: Process in which light energy is converted into chemical energy and stored in the bonds of sugar

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Kingdom Protista: made up of plants and some algae; these organisms go through photosynthesis

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Chloroplast: the part of the cell where photosynthesis takes place

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Chlorophyll: The green pigment involved in the photosynthesis

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Mesophyll: The layer in between the other layers on a leaf.

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Green Bacteria: One of the 3 types of bacteria in photosynthesis

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Purple Bacteria: One of the 3 types of bacteria in photosynthesis

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Cyanobacteria: One of 3 types of bacteria in photosynthesis

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Basic structures

Glucose H₂o

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ATP ADP

Conclusion

In short, photosynthesis is the process of changing light, water, and carbon dioxide, into glucose and ADP with a by-product of oxygen.

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