Photosynthesis

Self feeders, produce own food from CO2 and other materials

unable to make own food, they live on other organisms (consumers)

• Light Reactions: the photo part
• Calvin cycle: the synthesis part

process to add a phosphate group to ADP

where the calvin cycle occurs

Chloroplasts

P 680 it functions first,

P700 it functions second

the most abundant protein in chloroplasts(and on earth)....it catalyzes the first step of Calvin cycle

first step...takes co2 and attaches it to a five carbon sugar (RuBP)...then splits into two molecules

second step. a bunch of reduction takes place. The 3-phosphoglycerate changes to other things....G3P in the end.

third step....the 5 leftover G3P's are rearragned into 3 molecules of RuBP