Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis
 Types of Cells: Plant Cells
 Chloroplasts: plant cell organelles in which photosynthesis takes place
 Photosynthesis: process in which a plant cell uses the energy of sunlight
to make food
 Reactants: Sunlight, Carbon Dioxide, Water
 Products: Glucose, Oxygen
Photosynthesis
 Photosynthesis
 Get materials needed from environment
 Ex. Water through from soil through their roots; Carbon dioxide
through small pores on underside of leaf called stomata

 Plant moves water and carbon dioxide to the chloroplasts of the leaf
cells; chloroplasts contain chlorophyll (pigment that traps light energy)

 The chloroplasts use light energy to break down the water and carbon
dioxide, then the plant cell joins substances together to make glucose

 Glucose is energy rich sugar used as a source of energy

Photosynthesis
 Provides energy for most living things; when an animal eats a
plant energy stored is the plant is transferred to the animal; if
the animal is eaten, the energy is transferred again

 Photosynthesis also provides us with the oxygen we need to

breath
Cellular Respiration
 Types of Cells: Plant, animal, fungi, some bacteria
 Mitochondria: place where cellular respiration happens, found in all
cells, all living things need to use energy
 Purpose:
 Cellular Respiration is the process organisms use to breakdown food (sugar) to
release energy
 In plants: Once plants make sugar, they must break it down to release the energy it
contains
 a plant uses some of the oxygen produced during photosynthesis

 Reactants: Glucose, oxygen

 Products: ATP (energy), water, carbon dioxide