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What is reductive phosphorylation?

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Recductive phosphorylation is the opposite of oxidative phosphoroylation. Reductive phosphorylation will occur in photosynthesis, when the chemiosmotic gradient is created because proteins along the thylakoid membrane have channeled hydrogen ions from the stroma to the thylakoid space. After, the hydrogen ions want to go back into the stroma because of the chemiosmotic gradient, and therefore, the enzyme ATP Synthase will open and let them run through. Like a wind turbine, it will spin at the same time, and crush ADP and P to make adenosine triphosphate (ATP). This whole process as a whole is called reductive phosphorylation because it essentially is one of the steps in reducing (giving electrons) carbon dioxide to glucose.

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