BIO1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Thylakoid, Leaf, Chloroplast

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Concept 10. 1 photosynthesis converts light energy to the chemical energy of food. Chloroplasts are found mainly in the cells of the mesophyll, the tissue in the interior of the leaf. Carbon dioxide enters the leaf, and oxygen exits, by way of microscopic pores called stomata. Water absorbed by the roots is delivered to the leaves in veins. Leaves also use veins to export sugar to the roots and other non- photosynthetic parts of the plant. A chloroplast has two membranes surrounding a dense fluid called the stroma. Suspended within the stroma is a third membrane system, made up of sacs called thylakoids, which segregates the stroma from the thylakoid space inside these sacs. Chlorophyll, the green pigment that gives leaves their colour, resides in the thylakoid membranes of the chloroplast. Co2 + (cid:1005)(cid:1006) h(cid:1006)o + light e(cid:374)ergy c6h12o6 + 6 o2+ (cid:1010) h(cid:1006)o. The direct product of photosynthesis is a three-carbon sugar that can be used to make glucose.

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