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When an excited electron is passed to an electron acceptor in a photosystem, energy in sunlight is transformed to chemical energy.
h2o
Excited electrons are transferred to an electron transport chain.
Excited electrons are transferred to an electron transport chain.
NADP+
When an excited electron is passed to an electron acceptor in a photosystem, energy in sunlight is transformed to chemical energy.
h2o
Excited electrons are transferred to an electron transport chain.
NADP+
Excited electrons are transferred to an electron transport chain.
The light-dependent portion of photosynthesis is carried out by two consecutive photosystems (photosystem I and photosystem II) in the thylakoid membrane of the chloroplasts. The photosystems are driven by the excited chlorophyll molecules.To begin photosynthesis, the chlorophyll molecule in photosystem II is excited by sunlight and the energy produced helps to break down a water molecule (H2O) into ½O2 (with electrons removed) and 2H+. The removed electrons are excited by the light energy. When the electrons prepare to come to their rest state, they go through an oxidative phosphorylation process and produces an ATP molecule.As the electrons are coming to a resting state, they are excited again in photosystem I and raised to a even higher energy state. The excited electrons are then used to produce NADP+ + H+. The highly energetic NADPH molecule is then fed into the Calvin Cycle to conduct carbon fixation.
In photosynthesis, the electrons from the chlorophyll are excited by the sunlight
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the electrons gain a huge amount of energy
Plants algae and bacteria capture sunlight after capturing they use metabolism to convert them in to energy. They do this when electrons get excited and jump off chloroplast into thylakoid membrane, the electrons have to be replaced so they steal them from CO2 and all that is left is oxygen and they release it.
I believe it may be solar energy considering the start of the excited electrons journey in photosystem II (?)
Water is split to have its electrons replace the excited electron of chlorophyll, then enters photosystem II.