Plants absorb a common gas called carbon dioxide, pull water up through their roots and use light to make sugar. Plants use the sugar to grow. Plants give off oxygen as a by-product. The green parts of the plant makes the sugar and

Photosynthetic cells may have thousands of chloroplasts . Chloroplasts in plant & algal cells absorb light energy from the sun during the light dependent reactions

Sun

When light strikes an object, it is absorbed, transmitted, or reflected . When all colors are absorbed, the object appears blackWhen all colors are reflected, the object appears whiteIf only one color is reflected (green), the object appears that color such as the Chlorophyll.

In the thylakoid happens light dependent reactions. This system depends on sunlight for activation energy.Light is absorbed by chlorophyll a which "excites" the electrons in the chlorophyll molecule. Electrons are passed through a series of carriers and adenosine triphosphate or ATP (energy) is produced.

H2O O2 + ATP + NADPH2

Light is absorbed by the antenna pigments of photosystems II and I

The absorbed energy is transferred to the reaction center pigment, P680 in photosystem II, P700 in photosystem I

These excited electrons activate P700

in photosystem I which helps reduce NADP+ to NADPH//NADPH is used in the Calvin cycle.

CO2 diffuses into the stroma from surrounding cytosol An enzyme combines a CO2 molecule with a five-carbon carbohydrate called RuBP

Each PGA molecule receives a phosphate group from a molecule of ATP

PGAL serves as the starting material for the synthesis of glucose and fructose Glucose and fructose make the disaccharide sucrose, which travels in solution to other parts of the plant

Energy can be transformed from one form to another like photosynthesis converts light energy to chemical energy in which the turkey ate in the grass.

ATP is energy carrying molecule used by cells to fuel their cellular processes.ATP is composed of an adenine base, ribose sugar, & 3 phosphate (PO4) groups.

ATP is made & used continuously by cellsEvery minute all of an organism's ATP is recycled

Enzymes help break & reform these high energy PO4 bonds in a process called substrate-level phosphorylation.When the high-energy phosphate bond is broken, it releases energy, a free phosphate group, & ADP.

Electron Transport Chain takes place in cristae

Space inside cristae is called the matrix & contains DNA & ribosomes also the Krebs cycle takes place in it

The energy in one glucose molecule may be used to produce 36 ATP it involves a series of 3 reactions…….Glycolysis, Kreb's Cycle, & Electron Transport Chain.

2 ATP added to glucose (6C) to energize it.

Glucose split to 2 PGAL (3C).

NADH is energy

If no oxygen is available to the cell (anaerobic), the pyruvate will be fermented

Pyruvic acid from glycolysisdiffuses into matrix of mitochondria & reacts with coenzyme

Acetyl Co-A (2C) enters the Kreb'sCycle & joins with Oxaloacetic Acid (4C) to make Citric Acid

Citric acid is oxidized releasing CO2

, free H+, & e- and forming ketoglutaric acid

Free e- reduce the energy carriers NAD+ to NADH2 and FAD+ to FADH2

Oxaloacetic acid is regenerated to start the cycle again

A concentration gradient of H+ between the inner & outer mitochondrial membrane occurs

H+ concentration gradient causes the synthesis of ATP by chemiosmosis

Energized e- & H+ from the 10 NADH2 and 2 FADH2 are transferred to O2 to produce H2O

This Whole process is the functions that keep the plant life alive and healthy. It also makes it look yummy to Boneshikwathe turkey and she eats.

Then she gets to be a………

Then we eat the turkey!

-With the energy from the sun

-Chloroplast

-Green

-Photosystems I and II

-Calvin cycle

-The energy process

-Matrix

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-Krebs Cycle

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