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Photosynthesis · Lecture 4
Intro to Biology · 38:12 video · 3 min read
Plants turn light into chemical energy in two stages. The first captures energy from light; the second spends it to build sugar from CO₂.
Light-dependent reactions 04:12
- Happen in the thylakoid membranes
- Water is split and oxygen is released as a by-product
- Energy is stored as ATP and NADPH
The Calvin cycle 17:40
- Runs in the stroma and needs no light directly
- RuBisCO fixes CO₂ into three-carbon sugars
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Search ⌘KSo the light reactions leave us with two things: ATP and NADPH.
Neither of them is sugar yet. That's what the second stage is for.
The Calvin cycle runs in the stroma, and it doesn't need light directly.
Its key enzyme, RuBisCO, grabs CO₂ from the air and attaches it to a five-carbon sugar.
The result splits into two three-carbon molecules, and that's where glucose starts.
RuBisCO is slow, which is why plants make so much of it.
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- 00:00
Why plants need light
Photosynthesis turns light energy into chemical energy stored in glucose.
- 04:12
Light-dependent reactions
In the thylakoids, water is split, oxygen is released and ATP and NADPH are made.
- 17:40
The Calvin cycle
In the stroma, RuBisCO fixes CO₂ into three-carbon sugars using ATP and NADPH.
- 27:05
C4 and CAM plants
Two workarounds for photorespiration in hot, dry climates.
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