Photosynthesis in Plants

The phenomenon of preparation of food by plants is known as Photosynthesis. It is due to the requirement of sunlight. Photo means light and synthesis means combine.

The process in which water is split during photosynthesis is called photolysis.

Blue light is most effective for stomatal opening. 

Yes, it is the correct. The coloured leaves have chlorophyll too. Here, the green colour is not visible to our eyes, as it is present in very less amount. Hence, we can say that all the leaves possess chlorophyll.

Leucoplasts are required for monoterpene synthesis. Monoterpenes are terpenes, a class of organic compounds, produced by a variety of plants, particularly conifers. Leucoplasts contain droplets of lipid-like material at their margins leading to the belief that these organelles are involved in monoterpene synthesis. Leucoplasts contain enzymes of the monoterpene pathway, thus they might be involved in monoterpene synthesis.

Etioplasts are the chloroplasts that have not been exposed to light. They are usually found in flowering plants (Angiosperms) grown in the dark or if a plant is kept out of light for several days.

Chromoplasts serve as attractants and identifiers. They are responsible for distinctive colours of flowers and fruits and thus, serve as attractants for pollination and identifiers for several plants.

Photosynthesis produces glucose (a simple carbohydrate) as its primary product, using sunlight, water, and CO2. The glucose can be used immediately for energy, stored as starch, or converted to other carbohydrates like cellulose. While plants can synthesize fats, proteins, and absorb minerals, these are NOT direct products of photosynthesis. The overall reaction is: 6CO2 + 6H2O + light → C6H12O6 (glucose) + 6O2.

Algae are photosynthetic organisms that contain chlorophyll and produce their own food using sunlight. Mushrooms are fungi, while amoeba and plasmodium are non-photosynthetic protists.

Cytochrome plays the role of electron carrier in the both processes- respiration and photosynthesis. It is found either as monomeric proteins or greater enzymatic complexes’ subunits which catalyze redox reaction.  

The right sequence in which such products emerge from ribulose bisphosphate in the photorespiration pathway, is Glycolate, glyoxylate, glycine, serine.

Thylakoid membrane is the actual site for Photochemical is the photosynthesis’s primary reaction which occurs in chloroplast. It is done by a series of electron carriers with phosphorylation of ADP to ATP. Thylakoid membrane is the membrane-bound region inside the chloroplast and Cyanobacteria.

Bacteriochlorophyll; no O₂ evolution; light absorption at greater wavelength than 700nm is appropriate to the bacterial photosynthesis.

In C₃ plants when O₂ concentration is more than that of  CO_2, glycolic acid would be produced_. RuBisCO is involved in 1^st major steps of carbon fixation,  in which CO₂ is transformed into energy-rich molecules like glucose by plants.

C4 plants possess 2 individual cells- mesophyll cells and bundle sheath cells. Difference between C4  and CAM plants is CAM plants have only one cell and  they open their stomata during night and close during day. Fixation of CO₂ in the C₄ plants is isolated by space where in CAM plants it isisolated by time.