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Producers and Consumers Autotrophs (self- feeders): •Make their own organic matter from inorganic nutrients. Heterotrophs (other- feeders): •Organisms that cannot make organic molecules from inorganic ones.

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Producers and Consumers. Autotrophs (self-feeders): Make their own organic matter from inorganic nutrients. Heterotrophs (other-feeders): Organisms that cannot make organic molecules from inorganic ones. Energy Flow and Chemical Cycling in the Biosphere. Sunlight energy enters ecosystem. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Producers and Consumers

Autotrophs (self-feeders):•Make their own organic matter from inorganic nutrients.

Heterotrophs (other-feeders):•Organisms that cannot make organic molecules from inorganic ones.

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Energy Flow and Chemical Cycling in the Biosphere

Sunlight energyenters ecosystem

Photosynthesis

Cellular respiration

drives cellular work

Heat energy exits ecosystem

ATP

C6H12O6

(Glucose)+O2

(Oxygen)

CO2

(Carbon dioxide)

+H2O

(water)

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Photosynthesis:•Is used by plants, some protists, and some bacteria•Transforms light energy into chemical energy •Uses carbon dioxide and water as starting materials

Photosynthesis

Carbon dioxide

6 O26 CO2 6 H2O C6H12O6

Water GlucosePhoto-synthesis Oxygen gas

Light energy

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Photosynthesis– Organisms that use photosynthesis are:• Photosynthetic autotrophs• The producers for most ecosystems

Plants(mostly on land)

Photosynthetic Protists(aquatic)

PHOTOSYNTHETIC AUTOTROPHSPhotosynthetic Bacteria

(aquatic)

Micrograph of cyanobacteriaKelp, a large algaForest plants

LM

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found b/w lower and

upper epidermis

Photosynthesis

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LightH2O

O2

Chloroplast

Lightreactions

NADPH

ATP

Calvincycle

CO2

NADP+

ADPP

Sugar(C6H12O6)

Photosynthesis

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*photon

*Photons are absorbed by

pigment molecules

Photosynthesis

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Why Green?

Light

Chloroplast

Reflectedlight

Absorbedlight Transmitted

light

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Light-harvesting complexes of the thylakoid membrane

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Electron Flow

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Organization of light reaction machinery

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Chemiosmosis: A Comparison

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Calvin cycle (Carbon Fixation)

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Photosynthesis

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Alternative Pathways

Sugar

C4 Pathway(example: sugarcane)

C4 plant CAM plantSugar

Calvincycle

Calvincycle

Day

Celltype 1

Four-carboncompound

Night

Four-carboncompound

Celltype 2

CAM Pathway(example: pineapple)

ALTERNATIVE PHOTOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS

CO2 CO2

CO2 CO2