Photosynthesis overall chemical reaction

Photoautotrophic organisms, such as algae, cyanobacteria, and plants, all contain chlorophyll a and obtain energy by a process known as oxygenic photosynthesis. The overall chemical reaction of this process is ... 

The overall chemical reaction of photosynthesis (of green plants for instance) is the combination of water and carbon dioxide to form saccharides, or polysaccharides... 

The electron localized on the particle Q is subsequently used, through a complicated chain of chemical reactions, to reduce C02 to the carbohydrates (CH20)6, while the "hole localized on the particle C+ is used to oxidize some certain substrate, say hydrogen sulphide to sulphur. This results in the regeneration of the active centre C-P-J-A-Q. The overall chemical reaction of photosynthesis in purple bacteria can be thus written as... 

Photosynthesis is the process of converting light energy to chemical energy and storing it eventually in carbon hydrates [215]. The overall chemical reaction involved in photosynthesis is ... 

Plants convert carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates and dioxygen by a series of reactions called photosynthesis. The overall chemical reaction is... 

The reaction of photosynthesis is clearly the most important chemical reaction since life could not exist for long without it. The overall reaction is... 

In the chemical reactions for photosynthesis (Fig. 5-1), two tbO s are indicated as reactants in the O2 evolution step, and one H2O is a product in the biochemical stage. Hence, the overall net chemical reaction describing photosynthesis is CO2 plus H20 yields carbohydrate plus O2. Considering the energy of each of the chemical bonds in these... 

Skill 22.2 Identifying the overall chemical equations for the metabolic reactions of photosynthesis and respiration. 

Photosynthesis and respiration are two metabolic processes that involve a number of chemical reactions, as well as a number of substances, such as enzymes, that aid the reaction, but are not altered by it. The set of chemical reactions for each process can be condensed into single, overall reactions that include the initial reactants and the final products. 

The (CH20) is the general formula for a carbohydrate. It was then assumed that the energy stored in the carbohydrate was used in other chemical reactions to synthesize all the other plant materials (proteins, lipids, fats, and so on). It is now clear that amino acids, for example, are immediate products of the photosynthetic reduction of carbon dioxide, and that carbohydrate need not be synthesized first. This is not to minimize the importance of the photosynthesis of carbohydrate, but only to note that many other types of compounds are produced photosynthetically. The overall mechanism and many of the details of the carbon reduction cycle, CO2 to carbohydrate, were worked out by Melvin Calvin and his colleagues, for which he received the Nobel Prize. 

Chemical respiration, or cellular respiration, takes place in the cells of a plant or animal and is fueled by glucose and oxygen. The overall process is the opposite of the photosynthesis reaction, as shown in the following equation. 

For the chemically minded, the overall equation for photosynthesis can be given as COz + H20 —> CH20 (organic carbon in the form of carbohydrate) + 02 respiration can be given as the reverse reaction. This means that for every molecule of CHzO (or its equivalent in other organic matter) that is buried and not burned up by respiration, one molecule of 02 is left in the air. 

Glucose is synthesized naturally in plants and some single-celled organisms through the process known as photosynthesis. In this process, sunlight catalyzes the reaction between carhon dioxide and water that results in the formation of a simple carbohydrate (glucose) and oxygen. The overall reaction can be summarized by a rather simple chemical equation ... 

Photosynthesis Photosynthesis is the process by which the radiant energy of sunlight is converted to chemical energy by plants. Its overall reaction can be stated simply as ... 

Biochemical pathways photosynthesis. Far more complex pathways can be followed with tracers as well. The photosynthetic pathway, the most essential and widespread metabolic process on Earth, in which energy from sunlight is used to form the chemical bonds of glucose, has an overall reaction that looks quite simple ... 

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