Sunday, October 11, 2009

Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis matters to me because it helps plants form sunlight into energy which they turn into glucose , a chemical energy, that they feed on which in turn they give off oxygen as waste in which we need to survive.

http://www.johnkyrk.com/photosynthesis.html
- In this animation on photosynthesis, it talks about when the chloroplast membrane is struck by a photon of light electrons get "excited" and chlorophyll harvests it and creates cellular energy. It happens again and may receive a second jolt from chlorophyll splitting the water molecules in half.
then each photosynthetic field yields 2 ATP and 1 (NADH + H^+).