DO

PLANTS
EAT?
- It is a multi-step process that
requires sunlight, carbon
dioxide and water as substrates
in order to produce oxygen and
carbohydrate molecules.
 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
STEPHEN
HALES

- British physiologist
(1727)
 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

JAN BAPTISTA VAN

HELMONT
- Belgian chemist
(1600s)
 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

JOSEPH PRIESTLY

- English chemist
(1772)
 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

JAN INGENHOUSZ

- Dutch physician
(1779)
 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

JEAN SENEBIER

- Swiss scientist
(1782)
 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

NICOLAS THEODORE
DE SAUSSURE
- Swiss scientist
(1804)
 Photosynthesis Equation
Sunlight
Carbon
Water Sugar Oxygen
dioxide
Chlorophyll

6CO2 6H2O C6H12O6 6O2

 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

RUBEN AND
KAMEN

- Early 1940s
 LIGHT REACTION

Ligh Chlorophyll
O2
2H2O 4H
t
 DARK REACTION

4H CO2 CH2O H 2O
 COMBINATION

LIGHT
6CO2 12H2O C6H12O6 6H2O 6O2
CHLOROPHYLL
 WHERE DO
PLANTS GET
THEIR ENERGY?
NATURE OF LIGHT

- Particle and a wave

- Composed of different colors
- 12 photons to convert one mole
of carbon dioxide to
carbohydrates
 LEAF STRUCTURE

- Broad, flat and thin

- Stomata and intercellular spaces
- Chloroplasts and chlorophyll
CHLOROPLASTS
- Organelles that have the ability
to make food in the form of
sugars using air, water and the
energy from sunlight during the
process of photosynthesis.
WHY DO LEAVES CHANGE
COLORS IN THE FALL?
PHOTOSYNTHETIC PIGMENTS

•Chlorophyll a
•Chlorophyll b
•Carotenoids
Capturing energy from sunlight

Using the energy from ATP

Using ATP to build

carbohydrates
TWO PARTS OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Light
dependent

Light
independent
 LIGHT
REACTIONS

- Thylakoid membranes
- Take place only in the
presence of light.
 LIGHT REACTION

Ligh Chlorophyll
O2
2H2O 4H
t
 LIGHT
INDEPENDENT
REACTIONS
- Stroma
- Dark reactions
- Calvin Cycle
 LIGHT
INDEPENDENT
REACTIONS
- Carbon dioxide fixation
- Carbon dioxide reduction
- Regeneration of RuBP
 Carbon dioxide
Fixation

- Carbon dioxide RuBP 3 – PGA

RuBP (Ribulose Biphosphate)
RuBisCO (Ribulose Biphosphate Carboxylase)
3-PGA (Phosphoglyceric acid/phosphoglycerate)
 Carbon dioxide
Reduction

- ATP & NADPH 3-PGA PGAL

PGAL/G3P (Phosphoglyceraldehyde/Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate)
 RuBP Regeneration

- 3 turns of cycle 5 mol PGAL 3 RuBP

OXIDATION – REACTION
(REDOX)