Elizabeth Ntambwe

5th Pd

Photosynthesis formula

Photosynthesis is a process in which green plants use energy from the sun to

transform water, carbon dioxide and minerals into oxygen and organic

compounds. Photosynthesis if it’s translated would mean “putting together

with light”. Photosynthesis is one example of how people and plants are

depended on each other in sustaining life. Photosynthesis happens when

water is absorbed by the roots of green plants and is carried to the leaves by

the xylem, and carbon dioxide is obtained from air that enters the leaves

through the stomata and diffuses to the cells containing chlorophyll. The

green pigment chlorophyll is uniquely capable of converting the active energy

of light into a latent form that can be stored in food and when needed.

Photosynthesis provides us with most of oxygen when needed in order to

breathe. Exhale the carbon dioxide needed by plants. Plants are also crucial to

human life because we rely on them as a source of food for ourselves and for

the animals that we eat. The hydrogen and the carbon and oxygen of carbon
dioxide are then converted into a series of increasingly complex compounds

that result finally in the stable organic compound, glucose , and water. This

phase of photosynthesis utilizes stored energy and therefore can proceeed in

the dark. Photosynthesis is a very complex process, and for the sake of

convenience and ease of understanding, plant biologists divide it into two

stages. In the first stage, the light-dependent reaction, the chloroplast traps

light energy and converts it into chemical energy contained in nicotinamide

adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) and adenosine triphosphate (ATP),

two molecules used in the second stage of photosynthesis. In the second stage,

called the light-independent reaction, NADPH provides the hydrogen atoms

that help form glucose, and ATP provides the energy for this and other

reactions used to synthesize glucose.

( Photosynthesis formula)

6 CO2 + 6 H2O → C6H12O6 + 6 O2

Carbon dioxide+ Water + Light energy → Glucose + Oxygen

GS Singhal, G Renger, SK Sopory, K-D Irrgang and Govindjee, Narosa

Publishers/New Delhi; and Kluwer Academic/Dordrecht, pp. 11-51.

Retrieved from

http://www.life.illinois.edu/govindjee/paper/gov.html
M.J. Farabee (1/30/98)

http://www2.estrellamountain.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/BioBookPS.h

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Creek ThinkQuest Team (1996)

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