BIL 150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Cellular Respiration, Leaf, Photosynthesis

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Autotrophs produce their organic molecules from co2 and other inorganic raw materials obtained from the environment. Carbon dioxide + water + light energy = glucose + oxygen. Nadph, a source of electrons, acts as reducing power that can be passed along to an electron acceptor, reducing it, while atp is the versatile energy currency of cells. Light reactions produce no sugar: calvin cycle (occurs in the stroma, the cycle begins by incorporating co2 from the air into organic molecules already present in the chloroplast. This incorporation of carbon into organic compounds is known as carbon fixation: the calvin cycle then reduces the fixed carbon to carbohydrate by the addition of electrons. The reducing power is provided by nadph, which acquired its cargo of electrons in the light reactions. To convert co2 to carbohydrate, the calvin cycle also requires chemical energy in the form of atp, which is also generated by the light reactions.

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