Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis:

Basic Information:
**Photosynthesis** is a process that plants carry out using sunlight energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen. This development occurs inside the chloroplast then into the granum and ends at parts of the Thylakoids. The materials that are required for Photosynthesis are broken down into a equation (picture below). This allows carbon dioxide and water to mix with sunlight too come up with sugar and oxygen. Sunlight provides the energy, sugar stores the energy carbon dioxide supplies carbon, water gives electrons, while enzymes put together the pieces, which ends oxygen as a waste product.



The **light-dependent reactions** require light and produce oxygen gas and then converts ADP and NADP+ into the energy carriers ATP and NADPH. When water and sunlight combine the thylakoids react giving off oxygen. When reacted, thylakoids send electrons with an energy carrier of NADPH and ATP through the Calvin cycle. The **Calvin Cycle** produces glucose or sugar from the carbon dioxide we breath out of our bodies. When the Calvin cycle is complete its first round, it gives off NADP and ADP energy carries to send back to be recharged with electrons.



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