Timeline for What is the relationship between the light and dark reactions of photosynthesis?
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| Oct 7, 2019 at 15:08 | comment | added | WYSIWYG | @another'Homosapien' I realized after tagging. I asked the mods to merge the other question to this one, if possible. | |
| Oct 7, 2019 at 10:38 | comment | added | another 'Homo sapien' | @WYSIWYG this one was actually asked earlier than the other one, so... :D | |
| Oct 7, 2019 at 9:00 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 7, 2019 at 8:43 | comment | added | WYSIWYG | Possible duplicate of Why is ATP produced in photosynthesis used to synthesize glucose? or the other way round. | |
| Dec 29, 2017 at 8:09 | comment | added | another 'Homo sapien' | @eli ah, my friend! Thats why I said "from scratch". Comments, having size limit, really aren't places for writing with proper semantics, you just have to understand some things. All right, lemme tell you the story: this account belonged to my son, he asked this (and a few more) questions. I, reluctant to make a new ID, started using his account and answering questions. He barely uses this site anymore. So, please dont think I'm a newbie ;) | |
| Dec 28, 2017 at 16:41 | comment | added | Eli Korvigo | @another'Homosapien' Regarding: "animals dont synthesize glucose" – we actually do, that's called gluconeogenesis. | |
| Dec 28, 2017 at 16:16 | comment | added | another 'Homo sapien' | @david you're assuming just too much. I picked plants because animals dont synthesize glucose (well, from scratch). And my question title had a focus on photosynthesis because light and dark reactions are in (quite) direct relation, but no such relation is present elsewhere (especially in animals). Again, why this question was asked is a long story that I dont wish to touch upon. | |
| Dec 28, 2017 at 15:33 | comment | added | David | In response to your PS. If what you say was really your intent, why pick on plants? Animals don‘t store energy as ATP either. And your original title "Why is photosynthesis so complicated?" had a focus on photosynthesis, as if you had just been introduced to the subject and could see the importance of the light reaction (perhaps considered in one chapter of a book such as Berg et al., and were puzzled about the added complexity of a separate chapter on the dark reaction, which you assumed was for storage — as you admitted in your response to @EliKorvigo. | |
| Dec 28, 2017 at 7:01 | history | edited | another 'Homo sapien' | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 27, 2017 at 20:12 | history | edited | David | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 27, 2017 at 20:08 | answer | added | David | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 17, 2016 at 14:24 | comment | added | user25568 | Why many biological processes are unnecessarily complicated. Anything (structure/function) found in nature, is result of accident. Nothing happened 'purposefully'. In random events of mutations etc, which one become beneficial for a certain small context; is selected. | |
| Sep 17, 2016 at 14:15 | comment | added | user25568 | Carbohydrate doesn't easily release the energy, so they can be used for storage and long-distance transport. Like a piece of paper (though cellulose), fires-up only if it gets a touch of flame, though the reaction is exothermic. | |
| Feb 14, 2016 at 14:23 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackBiology/status/698875151455293441 | ||
| Jan 1, 2016 at 19:53 | history | edited | rg255 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 1, 2016 at 18:55 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 1, 2016 at 16:23 | comment | added | another 'Homo sapien' | Yes sir @AMR I've understood it now and thats why I've selected the answer below as correct and said thanks to Eli for the comment ;-) | |
| Jan 1, 2016 at 16:17 | comment | added | AMR | Plants are Eukaryotes and have Mitochondria, so they perform glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation as well. Animals don't store energy in ATP any more than plants do. We store it in glycogen and fats. | |
| Jan 1, 2016 at 15:57 | vote | accept | another 'Homo sapien' | ||
| Jan 1, 2016 at 15:53 | answer | added | Christian | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jan 1, 2016 at 13:39 | comment | added | another 'Homo sapien' | thanks, i was actually misled to the fact that carbohydrates are only synthesized for energy storage, and totally forgot that all our body is carbon-based, which we basically get from carbohydrates & their derivatives ;-) | |
| Jan 1, 2016 at 13:12 | comment | added | Eli Korvigo | No, photosynthesis is used to assimilate inorganic carbon in order to use it in biosynthesis (that's what "synthesis" stands for). It has little to do with energy. There are quasiphotosyntetic bacteria that only use light to harvest energy, hence they depend on first-level producers for organic carbon (organisms with functioning Calvin cycle, Arnon cycle etc). You need organic carbon to make proteins, nucleic acids and lipids. | |
| Jan 1, 2016 at 12:54 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 1, 2016 at 12:49 | history | asked | another 'Homo sapien' | CC BY-SA 3.0 |