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Short slideshow covering some of the basics of the evolutionary "miracle" photosynthesis. See how plants (and some bacteria) manage to take solar fusion energy, water, and carbon dioxide, and turn it into food (carbohydrates). Please note: This is an "animated" PPS, and SlideShare does NOT know how to handle these... For best viewing experience, download .pps and view locally!TRANSCRIPT
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Life’s Primus Motor:Photosynthesis ̶ Origin of most Earthly Life “fuel”!
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Why (Most) Plants Are Green
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“White” Light(all wavelengths)
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Absorbed Wavelengths(aided by chlorophyll, kinetic light energy is converted topotential energy, stored in carbohydrate chemical bonds)
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NADPH
Assimilated Bacterium: Chloroplast
Imports: Photon (Solar Fusion) Energy + 6 H2O + 6 CO2
Exports: 6 O2 + C6H12O6 (Glucose)
Light Reactions:Photosystem II
Electron TransportPhoto System I
Electron Transport
Dark Reactions:Calvin-Benson Cycle(Reductive PentosePhosphate Cycle)
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6 H2O + 6 CO2 + Energy = C6H12O6 (Glucose) + 6 O2
Manufactured carbohydrates are transported towhere they are needed by the plant (organism)
Chloroplasts:Candy Factories
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Atomic Level
Sugar Train!
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Thylakoid
Lumen (PS I/II)
Innermembrane Outer
membrane
Grana (Thyla-koid “stacks”)
Stroma
Thylakoidmembrane
Chlorophyll captures energy, used to split H2O and to drive
cyclic reactions inside stroma,building various carbohydrates
Photon hits chlorophyll molecule(located inside thylakoid grana)
Carbon dioxide (from airvia stomata) to chloroplast
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pQ (Plastoquinone)
Cytochrome
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From/To
Stroma
(Dark)
Reactions
Fd bound
FAD (Fd Soluble)
Photons
Chlorophyll Molecule (only porphyrin ring shown, and move-ment added to visualize electrons getting excited to higher energy levels). ATP is synthesized by F0F1 ATP Synthase,
driven by hydrogen protons, descending a pH gradient.
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Photosystem II Photosystem I
Thylakoid (Light) Reactions
Oxygen(to air)
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Photophosphorylation
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Reductive Pentose Phosphate CycleAlso known as named after its discoverers,
Calvin-Benson Cycle
Reductive Pentose Phosphate CycleAlso known as named after its discoverers,
Calvin-Benson Cycle
CarbohydrateSynthesis
From/To
Thylakoid
(Light)
Reactions
“Rubisco”(Ribulose BisphosphateCarboxylase-Oxidase)
Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate
3-Phospho-Glycerate
RibuloseBisphosphate
CO2Stroma (Dark) Reactions
Regeneration
Reduction Carboxylation
From Air
From Roots
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ChloroplastMitochondrion
Recycled:
H2O, CO2, O2(low energy: high entropy)
Plant Manufacture:
Carbohydrates(high energy: low entropy)
Vegetabilia evolvinginto animalia…
Simultaneous Independent Co-dependency Evolution!
Cyanobacteria evolvinginto vegetabilia…
NuclearNew Clear Energy FusionEnergy
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Symbiosis… or Single Entity?
Carbohydrates,other organic
molecules
H2O
O2
CO2
Output
Output
Input
Input
Input
Output
InputOutput
Photosynthesis RespirationCO2 + H2O O2 + Carbohydrates Carbohydrates + O2 H2O + CO2
Water
Oxygen
Carbon dioxide
Carbohydrates
Energy
Most other livingorganisms
Plants,algae,
some bacteria
Nuclear fusion energyChemical
bond energy
Survival,Propagation,
Useful (?) Work
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Text,Concept,
“Artwork,”Graphics,
Animations:
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