How Light Energy Affects Photosynthesis
There are many variables that could affect the rate of photosynthesis and the net consumption of carbon dioxide. In this experiment, the effects of how the intensity of light energy affected photosynthesis were observed. Two pieces of elodea was placed into separate beakers and one of the beakers was placed under a bulb of lower intensity and the other beaker being placed under a higher intensity bulb. The results showed that the beaker under the higher intensity light energy had a higher consumption of carbon dioxide when compared to the beaker that was under the bulb of lower intensity. An addition variable that was not recognized, was that the higher intensity bulb had also radiated a higher heat of energy which have may have assisted in
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Simply, photosynthesis is a process that occurs in plants and some bacteria where light energy and other substances like carbon dioxide react with one another to produce a form of energy, while at the same time releasing oxygen. The relationships between living biological systems and plants that produce oxygen have a relationship similar to mutualism. Living organisms release carbon dioxide which is required for plants to process photosynthesis, and in return oxygen is produced (Sutherland 2015). Without photosynthesis, there would be a dramatically decrease in the amount of oxygen present. After all, photosynthesis is one of the dominant sources for oxygen.
The process of photosynthesis is actually very complex at the cellular level. Two common details about photosynthesis are that it produces sugar and oxygen. A study by Grondellea and Novoderezkinb (2011) showed that there are two regions where the process of photosynthesis occur called the photosystem I and photosystem II. In the photosystem I, light energy along with NADPH and ATP is used to produce sugar. While in photosystem II, oxygen is produced when negative charged subatomic particles are dissociated from water by the use of light energy (Grondellea and Novoderezhkinb
Simply, photosynthesis is a process that occurs in plants and some bacteria where light energy and other substances like carbon dioxide react with one another to produce a form of energy, while at the same time releasing oxygen. The relationships between living biological systems and plants that produce oxygen have a relationship similar to mutualism. Living organisms release carbon dioxide which is required for plants to process photosynthesis, and in return oxygen is produced (Sutherland 2015). Without photosynthesis, there would be a dramatically decrease in the amount of oxygen present. After all, photosynthesis is one of the dominant sources for oxygen.
The process of photosynthesis is actually very complex at the cellular level. Two common details about photosynthesis are that it produces sugar and oxygen. A study by Grondellea and Novoderezkinb (2011) showed that there are two regions where the process of photosynthesis occur called the photosystem I and photosystem II. In the photosystem I, light energy along with NADPH and ATP is used to produce sugar. While in photosystem II, oxygen is produced when negative charged subatomic particles are dissociated from water by the use of light energy (Grondellea and Novoderezhkinb