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Photosynthesis

Brief introduction

Nithianandan Selliah, Ph.D.

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Oxygen in Photosynthesis

CO2 + 2 H2O (CH2O) + O2

Hydrogen donor in green plants

H2S in photosynthetic sulfur bacteria

Oxygen in photosynthesis comes from water

6 CO2 + 6 H2O C6H12O6 + 6 O2


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chloroplastcytosol

H2OPhotosynthetic

electron transfer

reactions

Carbon fixation

reactions

Glyceraldehyde

3-phosphate

Starch

Sugars

Amino acids

Fatty acid

Photosynthesis Reaction

O2

CO2

ATP NADPH


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Carbon Fixation Reaction

Calvin Cycle

3 CO2

6 3-phosphoglyceride

6 ATP

6 NADPH

glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate3 ATP

6 ADP

6 NADP

3 ADP

6 1,3-bisphosphoglyceride

6 glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate

5 glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate

3 Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate

(RuBP)

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