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Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis and cellular respiration work together as a team in a never-ending cycle, together they recycle oxygen and other molecules allowing us to breathe. Both metabolic processes recycle oxygen in a very similar way. In Cellular Respiration we have the equation C6H12O6 + 6O2 à 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + Energy (Heat + ATP), showing that the exhaust is carbon dioxide and water, and that oxygen is the reactant. In Cellular respiration oxygen is used up to make carbon dioxide, oxygen undergoes several steps to be converted into carbon dioxide, which will later be used by photosynthesis. In the first step where oxygen is found is in the Electron Transport Chain (ETC). Here electron carriers that come from the Krebs cycle and glycolysis, usually NADH and FADH2, carry electrons down a cascade of electron acceptors that gradually take these electrons away. The carrier is pulled down the chain thanks to oxygen that is very electronegative and thus it demands more electrons then


In cellular respiration there is a process in the inner membrane known as Chemiosmosis. This mechanism occurs in glycolysis and the Krebs cycle. This process is also known as the Electron Transport Chain. It is an energy converter that transforms chemical energy into a gradient of H+. The Electron transport chain is found in the membrane of the mitochondria and it donates electrons, hydrogen ions are dropped and picked up and dropped in the intermembrane space. The ETC functions s a proton pump that pumps out H+ across the membrane. The flow of H+ is finished when the ions pass down their gradient through an ATP synthase, which uses the energy to make ATP, this process is known as oxidative phosphorylation. In a general view chemiosmosis is an energy coupling mechanism that uses exergonic reactions to store energy in the form of H+ gradient and then use this to drive other kinds of work such as ATP synthesis.

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