Describe in detail, the overall process of photosynthesis. (Also can you give the equation and help me?

Question

understand the equation thanks

Answer 1

But the process of photosynthesis (kind of like cellular respiration) is so long. The equation (co2 + energy + h2o=sugar + o2) really tells all. Chlorophyll is the green pigment in the plant that gets sunlight (energy). Chloroplasts use that energy, co2 and h2o to make sugar and oxygen. The sugar can be stored, used, or turned into other structures. Yeah, that is the shortest I can summarize it. The other answers do an amazing job at thoroughly explaining this complex yet simple process.

Answer 2

Your biology textbook probably has this information.  If you can't find it there, wikipedia can send you to some relevant sites.  Your homework needs to have a real citation, not just "someone on Yahoo Answers said it."

Answer 3

Uhm sorry Irdk (I really don't know) lol. Sorry.

Answer 4

Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, some bacteria, and some protistans use the energy from sunlight to produce sugar, which cellular respiration converts into ATP, the "fuel" used by all living things. The conversion of unusable sunlight energy into usable chemical energy, is associated with the actions of the green pigment chlorophyll. Most of the time, the photosynthetic process uses water and releases the oxygen that we absolutely must have to stay alive. Oh yes, we need the food as well!

We can write the overall reaction of this process as:

6H2O + 6CO2 ----------> C6H12O6+ 6O2

Answer 5

6CO2+6H20 + Sunlight(Energy)= C6H12O6 + 6O2

Basically the plant takes in water and carbon dioxide and uses the atoms of those molecules as well as the energy of sunlight to create glucose (C6H12O6) and oxygen molecules.

The extra energy of the sunlight is stored in chemical bonds in the glucose molecule.

That's honestly it, like no joke.  The Coefficients are just to balance out the atoms...(if you didn't notice there are 6 Cs on both sides, 18 Os, and 12 Hs.)

Answer 6

6 H2O + 6 CO2 + Light = 1 C6-H12-O6 + 6 O2

Answer 7

C6+H12+06

THATS THE EQUATION

Answer 8

Cellular respiration is a catabolic pathway that generates ATP from oxygen and organic fuel to drive cellular work. On the other hand, photosynthesis uses the byproducts of respiration, carbon dioxide and water, along with solar energy to generate oxygen and organic molecules to also fuel cellular activity.

Organic compounds, often glucose, and oxygen are the starting products, which are then converted to carbon dioxide, water, and energy in the form of heat and ATP. Respiration is comprised of three states: glycolysis, citric acid cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation. Glycolysis takes place in the cytosol, while the citric acid cycle and oxidative phosphorylation take place in the mitochondria. The source of energy comes from organic molecules like glucose, carbohydrates, fats, and proteins that are rich in potential energy. Electrons are taken from food, organic fuel, by NAD+, a strong oxidizing agent, and FAD during glycolysis and citric acid cycle to become NADH and FADH2. These electrons are taken to the first molecule of the electron transport chain, flavoprotien, and continue down the chain to molecules of increasing electronegativity until it reaches oxygen and combines with it to make water. Glycolysis is the first stage where glucose is broken down to form 2 ATP molecules, 2 pyruvate molecules, and two NADH in the cytosol. Then the citric acid cycle breaks down pyruvate to carbon dioxide by oxidation if oxygen is present to make 6 NADH and 2 FADH2. Finally, oxidation phosphorylation makes the most ATP, by pumping H+ to create a gradient across the member with the electron transport chain. Chemiosmosis harness the flow of H+ back across the membrane because of the concentration gradient to power ATP synthesis. Cellular respiration is a catabolic process and the three stages of it are all catabolic by generating 36 or 38 ATP. Carbon dioxide ends up being a byproduct of respiration.

Photosynthesis takes place in chloroplast organelles in plant cells. The starting materials of photosynthesis are water, carbon dioxide, and light energy. The two parts of photosynthesis is the light reactions, in the membrane of the thylakoid, and the Calvin cycle, which takes place in the stroma of the chloroplasts. The source of energy for photosynthesis comes from the sun from solar energy. The light energy excites an electron in the photosystem II, which is then captured by the primary electron acceptor; at the very same time, an enzyme splits a water molecule into two hydrogen ions and an oxygen atom. The two electrons that came from water are sent down the electron transport chain to plastocyanin to photosystem I to make ATP then sent down another electron transport chain from PS I to reduce NADP+ reductase at the end of the electron transport to NADPH. The Calvin cycle is the next stage that uses the noncyclic electron flow products of ATP and NADPH to convert CO2 to glucose. The cyclic electron flow is to make more ATP, but no NADPH because the Calvin cycle uses up a little more ATP than NADPH so it acts as a regulator. Chemiosmosis is used to send protons across the thylakoid membrane through an electron transport chain. The protons then diffuse back across the membrane through ATP synthase to drive the synthesis of ATP for the Calvin cycle. First, CO2 enters the cycle, and then uses ATP as an energy source and NADPH as a reducing power to add high energy electrons to the sugar. The cycle has to go through three times to make one molecule of 3GP. In phase 1, carbon is attached to ribulose biphosphate and catalyzed by rubisco. In phase 2, 1, 3-biphosphogyycerate is then reduced to G3P from NADPH. In phase 3, all the starting materials are regenerated just like in the citric acid cycle. This anabolic mechanism synthesizes one G3P for every nine ATP and six NADPH. Finally, G3P is the starting material to make other organic compounds like glucose and carbohydrates.

This is what I wrote for a homework assignment in my biology class.

Answer 9

The process by which plants make food is called "photosynthesis". The word "photosynthesis" is made up of two words:

"photo" = light

"synthesis" = putting together

Plants take in carbon dioxide from the air and water from the soil; put them together (in the presence of light energy and chlorophyll) to produce sugar (glucose) and oxygen.

Chlorophyll is the green pigment found in plants. Both chlorophyll and light energy need to be present for photosynthesis to take place, but they are not used up in the process.

Thus, the process of photosynthesis can be represented as follows:

carbon dioxide + water chlorophyll

→→→→→→→→

light energy sugar (glucose) + oxygen

Some of the sugar produced during photosynthesis is used by the plant for its life processes (such as growing and reproducing); the excess is converted mainly to starch and stored in various plant parts which may be used as food by animals and humans.

Oxygen produced during photosynthesis replenishes the oxygen that was used up by living things during respiration ...

This cycle of photosynthesis and respiration maintains the balance of carbon dioxide and oxygen on earth.

6 CO2(g) + 12 H2O(l) + photons → C6H12O6(aq) + 6 O2(g) + 6 H2O(l)

carbon dioxide + water + light energy → glucose + oxygen + water