Photosynthesis : part A - The Reactions Amusical Lecture by Glenn A music Lecture by Glenn Boys girls tell me what you think of this, Time for a lesson ‘bout Cells use to combine water carbon dioxide. Gonna see electrons going for a ride. Making sugar, sweet O¬2. But should photosynthesis matter to you? Food on table. rich atmosphere. Without photosynthesis you simple wouldn’d here. ( Part I, Big Picture) is a redox reaction. Powered light using enzymatic action. Water’s oxidized, CO2’s re The sugar that results drink in orange juice. The reaction has two phases. First is the light reactions has as its basis. powered production of ATP. O2 is by – product and you will see. Production electron carrier NADPH Which provides reducing power needed the second phase ‘Cause NADPH, during 2 Provides what’s needed reducing CO2 NADPH ia made by a of NADP+, whose function Is to absorb electrons pick up H, Gaining and making NADPH. Phase 2 the Calvin Cycle makes carbohydrate, Like and starches and fibers on your lunch plate. It’s how make food animals eat. Photosynthesis, it’s sweet! (Part Chloroplasts, Thylakoids, Light, and Chlorophyll) In a lesf there’s mesophyllic cells with chloroplasts key to the issue. Chloroplasts are almost like cells every way, With their ribosomes and their own DNA. They even reproduce themselves, splitting half. clue for this organelle’s independent past. This theory has a name Developed in 60s by Lynn Margulis. Inside chloroplast is the fluid stroma. It’s true in true in Roma. Stroma syrrounds little Each one has a hollow space thylakoid’s membrane is loaded with protein. ‘Cause it’s the reactions’ scene. It’s all about light for powering electrons, All about the power in photons. The photons are are those from light, has the energy to make the world bright. The highest that we can see, Is violet with wavelength 380. 380 nanometers, sounds next to gamma rays it’s rather tall. Red light at 750. Isn’t the visible nifty? Photons are packets of light Both a wave and a particle, see. Phootins get by pigments. It’s real, it’s it ain’t no figment! important are green chlorophylls. Orange and yellow xanthophylls. Together absorb light, mostly red and blue. The green is not it reflects back to you. In chlorophyll see porphyrin ring. See the magnesium, which makes you want sing, Magnesium, metal valence two. You’ll see those electrons rocketing the tail, a hydrocarbon chain. Which anchors chlorophyll into thylakoid membrane. A molecule with so pretty, In the thylakoid makes electricity! Part III) Englemann showed us the action Used a to break the sun’s Light into frequencies. Shone it on spirogyra, filamentous The O2 algae make will bacteria. Which will grow in any – rich area. Bacteria loved it blue and red, But hardly grew over green, they might as well be The line of growth is refection, of photosynthesis’ action spectrum. Note this match, exactly, The absorption spectra of a or b. ‘Cause cartenoids and xanthophylls we’ve met, Absorb light frequencies the can’t get. And the thylakoid they all cooperate, In using light to carbohydrate. Consider chlorophyll in Shine some upon it (call it photoexcitation) valence electrons in magnessium Jump to an state, it’s so fun! But up at that level, they can only fall. Back to they started, like a bouncing ball. These alectrons, release energy, Fluorescing as red light, as you can in thylakoids, chlorophyll’s not alone, Instesd photosystem is chlorophyll’s home. The photosystem’s parts can take And use their energy to move The system’s antenna complex does the first Changing photon anergy into electron The energized electrons like a ball, At the reaction center, jump but do not fall. A primary electron acceotor grabs from on top, And yanks them with a reaction center cannot stop. this oxidized reaction center we’ll return, But the details of flow it now is time to learn. ( Part ATP Synthesis in Non – Cyclic Electron Flow. Non cycle flow is the main pathway. confustion relates to the way Hootoystm II precedes I. It’s a fct to memorize, get it done! PS II’s captures a photon, a flow of electrons. All around the even n Haiti, They flow to reaction P680. There electrons not hover, Electron acceptor passes over. the electron transport chain, In the thylakoid This chain’s like a brigade. Each has a similar trade. They take energized And use their for pumping protons. From stroma to the space. Packing protons into place. This makes gradient across the thylkoid membrane The protons want “out” or they’ll insane. the protons can’t permeate. The membrane won’t allow only one port through which they travel. It’s the ATP channel. The “-ase” tells this is an enzyme. Which makes ATP all time. It binding sites for ADP and Pi, And channels for protons whose knetic energy. the binding sites’ conformation. ADP with Pi which for your information. Is how thylakoids ATP. Life’s form of energy. From respiration this feel familiar. is made this way in mitochondria. Chemiosomosis is the ATP production is game. ( Part V: NADPH Synthesis in Non – Cyclic Elecron Back to electons moved by the sun. Flowing Photosystem II to System I. They get to PS I lke a used up The chain used up their energy. But when light PS I’s antenna Electrons to reaction center. one’s P700, That wavelength electrons go! PS electron acceptor grabs them away, P700 in an oxidized way. P700 with its oxidized blues accepts the alectrons from PS II. Bak to electron from PS It gose for a ride, having its own fun. powering proton pumps ain’t its fate. It travels NADP+ reductase. An plant cells count upon. pass some H and electrons. To NADP+ which gets It’s how NADPH get VI: Oxygen Production in Non – Cycli Electron Flow) The by product of these light reactions Is oxygen here’s how it Back PS II, it came to That got oxidized To lost electrons P680 liberates. Electrons from which dissociates. Into oxygen and protons two, single O will meet anoher forming O2. These protons are in the thylakoid space. proton concentration in that place. So we see a effect of water’s oxidation. enhancement of ATP creation.