The document discusses photosynthesis and how plants use it to produce energy and food. Photosynthesis has two main processes - the energy reactions that use sunlight to produce ATP and the sugar reactions that use ATP and carbon dioxide from the air to produce sugars. It requires sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water and produces oxygen as a byproduct. The chloroplasts in plant cells are where photosynthesis takes place.
3. Plants are energy producers Like animals, plants need energy to live Unlike animals, plants dont need to eat food to make that energy Plants make both food & energy animals are consumers plants are producers
4. How do plants make energy & food? Plants use the energy from the sun to make ATP energy to make sugars glucose, sucrose, cellulose, starch, & more sun ATP sugars
5. Building plants from sunlight & air Photosynthesis 2 separate processes energy building reactions collect sun energy use it to make ATP sugar building reactions take the ATP energy collect CO 2 from air & H 2 O from ground use all to build sugars ATP sun sugars + carbon dioxide CO 2 sugars C 6 H 12 O 6 water H 2 O + H 2 O CO 2
6. Using light & air to grow plants Photosynthesis using sun energy to make ATP using carbon dioxide & water to make sugar in chloroplast allows plants to grows makes a waste product oxygen 6CO 2 6H 2 O C 6 H 12 O 6 6O 2 sun energy + + + glucose + oxygen carbon dioxide sun energy + water + ( ATP )
7. What do plants need to grow? The factory for making energy & sugars chloroplast Fuels sunlight carbon dioxide water The Helpers enzymes ATP Make ATP! Make sugar! I can do it all And no one even notices! enzymes sun H 2 O sugars CO 2
10. Chloroplasts Chloroplasts in cell Leaf Leaf Chloroplast absorb sunlight & CO 2 make energy & sugar Chloroplasts contain Chlorophyll CO 2
11. Bring In CO 2 H 2 O light Let Out O 2 Move Around sugars So what does a plant need? roots shoot leaves 6CO 2 6H 2 O C 6 H 12 O 6 6O 2 light energy + + +
19. Putting it all together Making a living sunlight leaves = solar collectors photosynthesis gases: CO 2 in & O 2 out stomates = gases in & out H 2 O roots take in water from soil pulled up by leaf evaporation nutrients roots take in from soil
20. How are they connected? Respiration Photosynthesis glucose + oxygen carbon + water + energy dioxide C 6 H 12 O 6 6O 2 6CO 2 6H 2 O ATP + + + 6CO 2 6H 2 O C 6 H 12 O 6 6O 2 light energy + + + glucose + oxygen carbon dioxide sun energy + water +
21. Energy cycle Photosynthesis Cellular Respiration O 2 CO 2 plants animals , plants ATP H 2 O sun The Great Circle of Life! Where s Mufasa? glucose
22. The poetic perspective All of the solid material of every plant was built out of thin air All of the solid material of every animal was built from plant material Then all the cats, dogs, mice, people & elephants are really strands of air woven together by sunlight! sun air
24. Energy needs of life All life needs a constant input of energy Animals = Heterotrophs get their energy from eating others eat food = other organisms = organic molecules make energy through respiration Plants = Autotrophs get their energy from self get their energy from sunlight build organic molecules (food) from CO 2 make energy through photosynthesis
25. How do plants live? Photosynthesis Energy building reactions collect sun energy make ATP Sugar building reactions use ATP for energy use CO 2 as carbon for new sugars build sugars glucose, cellulose, starch build all other organic molecules proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, DNA store energy for future use starch in seeds & roots
27. Photosynthesis This is the equation you are used to seeing, but this is not the whole story + water + energy glucose + oxygen carbon dioxide 6CO 2 6H 2 O C 6 H 12 O 6 6O 2 light energy + + +
Editor's Notes
#21: So, in effect, photosynthesis is respiration run backwards powered by light. Cellular Respiration oxidize C 6 H 12 O 6 CO 2 & produce H 2 O fall of electrons downhill to O 2 exergonic Photosynthesis reduce CO 2 C 6 H 12 O 6 & produce O 2 boost electrons uphill by splitting H 2 O endergonic