BIOL 005A Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Thylakoid, Inner Membrane, Chloroplast
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2 stages of photosynthesis light reactions and calvin cycle (dark reactions) Light reactions- basically there are these little guys called chloroplasts inside the spongy mesophyll of a leaf. (psst mesophyll is basically the inside of a leaf. ) Inside these chloroplasts, there are these things called thylakoids (they look like pancakes!!) Calvin cycle- outside the thylakoids is an area known as the stroma. So in order to start photosynthesis we a need some good o" fashioned water (h2o). Of course we know that plants get water from roots. For the calvin cycle, we need carbon dioxide (co2). This comes from that polluted air it enters the leaves through these little pores called stomata. (we also need some nadph and atp but lets not get ahead of ourselves. To be fancy you call it electromagnetic radiation. When we talk about waves, the distance from one hump to another is called a.
