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