Let's take a look at how photosynthesis is made for food.
Carbon dioxide enters the leaf first.
Water is absorbed into the leaf. Through the stroma.
Photosynthesis takes place in the chloroplast which only plant cells have. Carbon dioxide and water are both reactants for photosynthesis.
Light hits the pigment in the membrane of a thylakoid, splitting the water into oxygen.
Light reactions are split into two types , Calvin cycle and light dependent. This step is light dependent.
And that is the process of photosynthesis!
The Calvin Cycle ( light independent) uses the carbon dioxide that has been collected to help produce glucose. ATP and NADP+ give the energy for the reactions to occur.
Carbon Dioxide Water
6CO2 + 6H2O
Solar Energy
Photosynthesis
C6H12O6 + 6O2
Glucose Oxygen
What did you learn?
In light dependent reactions light energy is used to convert ADP to ATP and NADP+ to NADPH.
Oxygen and glucose are the two outputs from the leaf.
Equation for photosynthesis
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