o Photosynthesis

- Energy: converting light energy into chemical energy

- Happens in chloroplast
- Converts light energy into chemical energy
 Light in the form of photons
 Chemical in the form of ATP, glucose, or others
- Heterotrophs
 Get energy from other organisms
- Autotrophs
 Make their own energy
(adenosine+ribosome sugar)
o ATP vs. ADP
- ATP model:
Adenosine
- adenine + ribose + 3 phosphate
- Active transport, molecular synthesis, responses Bond
- Takes energy to make a bond P
- Releases energy when a bond breaks
- ATP---- TRI. Phosphate bond P Phosphate
- ADP---- DI. Phosphate bond
- A phosphate can be broken off of ATP to be used for
P Bond breaks and
energy right away. When this occurs ATP is turned into
energy is released.
ADP.
o Storage vs. Immediate use

ATP
Releases energy when broken
ADP
Turns into
A–P–P–P A–P–P
TRI. DI.

o Discovery
- Van Helmount (1600s)
 Seed tree…Δ in soil mass vs. Δ in tree mass…water?
 Soil mass increased so he concluded it was from the water
- Priestly (1771)
 Candle fuel plant byproduct (oxygen)
 Oxygen is used to keep a fire going
 Put a leaf in a jar with a lit candle and the candle stayed lit longer than without
the leaf.
- Jan Igenhousz
 Light necessary for plant survival and photosynthesis
o PHOTOSYNTHESIS EQUATION
 For every 6
molecules light
6CO2 + 6H2O C6H12O6 + 6O2
of carbon
light
dioxide, (6 molecules) + (6 molecules) (1 molecule) (6 molecules)
you need 6 Carbon dioxide + water light glucose + oxygen gas
molecules
of water to
make 1 molecule of glucose and 6 molecules of oxygen gas
 this only happens through light Light energy
o Light
 Waves
 Visible spectrum
o Pigments
- chlorophyll a
- chlorophyll b
- Xanthophyll
- Carotene
 4 pigments
- Some other pigments are:
 Red
 orange

Light 