photosynthesis

• Photosynthesis Equation

  6CO2 + 6H20 = C6H12O6 + 6O2
• Photosynthesis Equation (words)

  carbon dioxide + water = glucose + oxygen
• Photosynthesis Misconception

  "photosynthesis produces energy"
• Photosynthesis is the process to create glucose (sugar)
• stroma

  • basically cytoplasm
  • dark reactions / calvin cycle
• thylakoid

  • light reactions
  • a granum is a stack
• light reactions


  • light strikes the chlorophyll creating ATP and splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen
  • reactants: water, ADP, NADP+
  • products: oxygen, ATP, NAHPH
• electron transport chain

  • located in the inner mitochondrial membrane
  • transfers H+ ions across the membrane
  • NADH and FADH2 travel through this
  • ATP Synthase
  • oxygen is used at the end
• ATP Synthase

  • uses energy from H+ Ions to make a concentration gradient
  • end result of ATP is 34
  • net result is 36
• calvin cycle (dark reactions)

  • CO2 combines with a molecule called RUBP
  • ATP and NADPH are used
  • produces glucose
  • uses CO2 (carbon dioxide) and H20 (water)
• factors of photosynthesis

  • water
  • temperature
  • light
  • CO2