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Unit 10 LAC Photosynthesis in Plants
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Unit 10 LAC Photosynthesis in Plants Unknown1
Photosynthesis in plants
Photosynthesis and stages
Light energy is changed into chemical energy during photosynthesis. Plant reactions with
water and carbon dioxide result in the creation of glucose and oxygen. It is significant
because it produces the glucose and oxygen necessary for all living organisms to breathe
and develop. Since energy is used up during photosynthesis, the reaction is endothermic.
Photosynthesis takes place in chloroplasts.Chloroplasts have a length that can range from 2
to 10 micrometres, a bilayer membrane surrounds them, and they have stacks of sacs called
thylakoids that hold the chlorophyll pigment. Chlorophyll, a plant pigment that absorbs light
energy and gives leaves their green colour, is found in the thylakoids. Photosystems are
used for this. There are two main stages to photosynthesis. In the first step, a light-
dependent reaction takes place, but in the second step, a light-independent reaction does. In
the course of photosynthesis, an anabolic reaction, molecules are produced.
Photosynthesis's chemical formula is Carbon Dioxide + Water -> Glucose + Oxygen.,
whereas the balanced equation is 6CO2 + 6H2O -> C6H12O6 + 6O2.
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Chlorophyll
(“Chloroplast | Definition, Function, Structure, Location, & Diagram”)
Plants contain the green pigment chlorophyll, which is composed of a number of other
pigments. Long phytol (hydrocarbon) chains and a magnesium-containing porphyrin group
are features shared by all of the pigments. Chlorophyll functions with the help of the metal
magnesium. Chlorophyll A and Chlorophyll B, two related substances, absorb light in the red
and blue spectral regions, respectively. These structures consist of a head that absorbs light
and a tail that fixes it to the thylakoid membrane.A magnesium ion serves as the centre of
the complex chemical ring structure of the head. The two major pigments P680 and P700,
which together make up chlorophyll a, have an appearance of yellow or green and absorb
red light at a slightly different wavelength.They are located in the primary pigment reaction
centre, which serves as the brain of the photosystem. The working parts of photosynthesis
are called photosystems. They control the absorption and transfer of light energy, including
the transfer of electrons, and are distinguished by a distinctive pigment arrangement.
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Consequently, they are unique combinations of photosynthetic pigments, which are
substances that absorb some wavelengths of light while reflecting others. The photosystem
II component P680 absorbs red light with a wavelength of 680 nm. Red light is absorbed by
P700, which is a component of photosystem I, a different kind of photosystem. 700 nm in
wavelength.
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Light-dependant reaction for photosynthesis
Despite the fact that photosynthesis is light-dependent, the reduced electron transporter
NADPH and the energy storage molecule ATP (Adenosine triphosphate) are required for the
subsequent stage of photosynthesis.It takes place in thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts.
The two primary processes in the light-dependent reaction of photosynthesis are 5
photophosphorylation and photolysis.
Water splits in the presence of light, a process known as photolysis. This process involves:
- In the thylakoid lumen, light energy transforms water into hydrogen ions, electrons,
and oxygen.
- When exposed to light, a photosystem II enzyme can convert water into protons (H+)
ions, electrons, and oxygen.
- Water photolysis produces a proton gradient, which raises the concentration of
hydrogen ions in the thylakoid lumen.
Adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, is created through the process of photophosphorylation.
The enzyme ATP synthase is driven by the proton gradient created by photolysis between
the stroma and thylakoid lumen. Photophosphorylation is represented by the symbol
equation ADP (adenosine diphosphate) + Pi -> ATP. There are two categories of
photophosphorylation: cyclic and non-cyclic. Cyclic photophosphorylation only uses
photosystem II. On the other hand, photosystems I and II are both involved in non-cyclic
photophosphorylation. Each photosystem contains a primary pigment, a group of
photosynthetic pigments that absorb light energy and transmit it to electrons. Water
photolysis is carried out by Photosystem II, which is found at the start of the electron
transport chain. The energy of ATP is carried during the photosynthesis reaction that is
independent of light.
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Cyclic phosphorylation
Only photosystem I (PSI) is impacted.
- Light is absorbed by photosystem I and transmitted to the primary pigment (P700) of
the system.
- Photoactivation occurs when an electron in the chlorophyll primary pigment molecule
is accelerated to a higher energy level and then released from the chlorophyll
molecule.
- An electron acceptor catches the excited electron and transports it through an
electron transport chain to the photosystem I chlorophyll molecule.
- Using the energy that electrons supply as they go through the electron transport
chain, proton pumps transfer protons (H+) from the stroma of the thylakoid lumen.
- Chemiosmosis causes the creation of ATP from ADP and an inorganic phosphate
group (Pi).
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