BIOL 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Thylakoid, Leaf, Light-Independent Reactions

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Photosynthesis is the process that converts soar energy into chemical energy; occurs in plants, algae, certain protists and some prokaryotes. Process of using sunlight to produce carbohydrate, process requires sunlight, co2 and water and produces oxygen as by-product. 6 co2 + 12 h2o + light energy c6h12o6 + 6 o2. Sustain without eating anything derived from other organisms, produce organic molecules from co2 and other inorganic molecules: almost all plants are photoautotrophs, using energy of sun to make organic molecules. Obtain their organic material from other organisms; they are the consumers of the biosphere. Chloroplasts: chloroplasts are structurally similar and likely evolved from photosynthetic bacteria, green color is from chlorophyll, green pigment within chloroplasts. Leaves are major location of photosynthesis: chloroplasts found mainly in cells of mesophyll. Chlorophyll is in the membrane of thylakoids (connected sacs in the chloroplast); thylakoids may be stacked in columns called grana.

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