Nancy started explaining about the process, “Well the long process is called photosynthesis. Lets talk about the interior of a plant cell first. Unlike animal cells, plant cells have chloroplasts. This absorbs light from sunlight and produces food for the plants,” said Nancy. Nancy grabbed a small branch with her beak and drew on the dirt to describe the chloroplast. “the interior of a chloroplast is a layered structure, containing the functions shown in this diagram.” showed Nancy. “Wow! so many functions. What do each of them do?” asked Eric. “The inner and outer membranes act as protective coverings and keep chloroplast structures enclosed. The intermembrane space performs nucleotide phosphorylation. Thylakoids serve as the sites of the conversion of light energy to chemical energy. Granums are dense layered stacks of thylakoid sacs that serve as the sites of conversion of light energy to chemical energy. The Stroma is a dense fluid within the chloroplast that lies outside the thylakoid membrane, it converts carbon dioxide to carbohydrates. The lamellae keeps all of the thylakoid sacs a safe distance from each other so there’s an efficient way to capture the Sun’s energy. Lumens are found in the …show more content…
“Carbon dioxide is captured in a cycle of reactions known as the Calvin cycle, it diffuses into the stroma of chloroplasts and combines with a five-carbon sugar and RuBP. This catalyzed reaction produces a 6-carbon which decays almost immediately to form two molecules of the 3-carbon compound. Using chlorophyll in the process of photosynthesis, they convert the sun's energy into ordered sugar molecules such as glucose. This way, carbon dioxide from the air and water from the soil in a bad state are combined to form a organized sugar molecule. In the last stage of the Calvin Cycle, RuBP is regenerated, which enables the system to prepare for more carbon dioxide to be fixed.” replied
To begin, in this lab we studied the structures of leaves under a microscope. A leaf is best described as a major photosynthetic organ of green plants. Plants carry out the process of photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and glucose for usable energy. This can be represented in a general equation which is 6CO2 + H2O -------> (sunlight and chlorophyll) C6 H12 O6 +6O2. Initially, the leaf is protected by the upper and lower epidermis as well as the cuticle.
Carly Crabtree Period 4 Accelerated Biology 11/20/15 Photosynthesis in Greenhouses Farmers use their knowledge about photosynthesis to increase crop growth every year. Greenhouse conditions are more easily controlled, rather than the air outside. Changing certain variables in the process of photosynthesis can change the outcome of the crops. One variable that farmers change is the temperature.
The purpose of the photosynthesis lab is to identify and observe the colors of pigments in a spinach leaf as they separate on chromatography paper. Photosynthesis is the anabolic process, or the process of making smaller particles into larger ones in metabolism, that plants use to convert reactants such as sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into products of glucose and oxygen. Photosynthesis occurs in the chloroplasts of a plant cell where chlorophyll, a pigment, is used to allow the process to occur, while factors such as the amount of sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide affect how much photosynthesis occurs. Chromatography is the process of separating chemical mixtures by allowing chemicals to move over another substance (Woodford, 2017).The moving phase, or moving substance, is in one state of matter as it spreads across the stationary phase, or nonmoving substance, in another state of matter to be identified separately (Woodford, 2017). Chromatography works by adsorption, which means that as the molecules pass over the solid, the
The pigment containing chromatophores are encased in a sac that has six to twenty small muscles. When the muscles contract the sac of pigment is
The process of photosynthesis is vital for the survival of most life on Earth. Without photosynthesis plant life would be unable to create its own food and sustain themselves causing them to die. Earth would lack the oxygen and energy that plant life provides. Producers are the main source of energy for living organisms because they can directly absorb light energy and turn it into chemical energy. Animals then eat the plants which give them a portion of that energy.
Oxygenic phototrophs have chlorophyll pigments while anoxygenic phototrophs have bacteriochlorophyll pigments. Bacteriochlorophyll pigments absorb light at longer wavelengths compared to chlorophyll pigments. Bacteriochlorophyll and chlorophyll also have varying side groups on their structures. How do the reaction centers and photosystems differ between cyanobacteria and Chlorobi? Cyanobacteria have photosystems 1& 2 whereas Chlorobi only have photosystem 1.
The most important result from this experiment is that it suggested that the increase of Carbon Dioxide, will drastically increase the growth mountain maple in the covered (from the sun) parts in a forest, in the meantime any increase in the temperature of the soil will nullify the increase of light, as we know is to be the main ingredient for photosynthesis. 5. The authors do not use any citations in the
As oxygen was a visible product, we counted the oxygen bubbles made when we moved the source of light. Hypothesis: Plants need light to photosynthesize. In this experiment, the light intensity is changed by changing the distance of the source of light closer or further away from the elodea, so theoretically, when the intensity becomes stronger due to the light source being closer to the Elodea, the rate of photosynthesis should increase and
All organisms use food molecules, like glucose to produce ATP. The production of ATP occurs during cellular respiration. ATP provides the cells with energy that is necessary to produce oxygen. The seeds/plants are autotrophic organisms, which produce their food from the energy that the light provides them. To release the stored energy within the food molecules, the germinated seeds carry out respiration and the release of carbon dioxide.
One of the focuses of this semester was the ability to identify biological processes that require energy and explain why they require energy. In the work I completed I demonstrated being able to accomplish this. This occurred in several different projects, including the cellular respiration lab involving the respiration rate of germinating seeds, the potato core lab and the photosynthesis lab. In these labs, we were able to identify the biological processes that required energy for the different processes to take place to allow germination to occur.
The sugar produced in the chloroplasts provides plants with chemical energy and carbon frameworks to make all the major organic molecules of cells. Photosynthesis manufactures over 500 billion metric tons of carbohydrates. It is also responsible for the occurrence of oxygen in our
Through the book I have learned so much about plants and have started to see them differently; when I look out my window and see my large evergreen tree I now admire how much it has been through. My mind set has been changing gradually into admiring plant and seeing them as hard workers instead of something that is just scenery. However, my view on plants changed drastically when I read chapter eleven. Chapter eleven informed us that plants care about each other, just like humans, and they can “talk.”
photosynthesis and cellular respiration are extremely important in the cycle of energy to sustain life simply because nutrients would not metabolize in a productive manner. Both have numerous stages in which the process of energy occurs, and relationships with organelles located in the eukaryotic cell. Photosynthesis is a process by which green plant and other organism manufacture their food using sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water while cellular respiration is the oxidation of organic compounds that occurs within cells, producing energy for cellular processes. Photosynthesis occurs within organelles called chloroplasts. These organelles can absorb light, and are located inside of leaves.
In plant leaves, pigments that in embedded in the thylakoid membrane will absorb light energy from the sun which initiates light dependent
Secondly they take in carbon dioxide from the air around them. Thirdly they absorb sunlight from the sun above. With these three things plants are able to produce oxygen through photosynthesis. Humans and animals perform an opposite process. Humans and animals take oxygen into their lungs through breathing.