Biochemical Pathways of Aerobic Pathways and Photosynthesis

Biochemical Pathways are chains of chemical reactions that take place in all living things to create a chemical compound. For example, glycolysis is a biochemical pathway. In respiration, glucose is broke down by glycolysis into pryruvate, which generates ATP, or in other words, energy. In eurkaryotic cells, cellular respiration starts with glycolysis in which it is then transported into the mitochondria. This is when the Kreb's Cycle take place, which is also another biochemical pathway. The mitochondria then eventually results in the breaking down of chemical bonds and the release of more ATP. The end products of these reactions are CO2 and H2O.

Now, the main reason for photosynthesis is to provide food. All the energy from the light photons are quickly trapped by chlorophyll and are then passed on by the photosystems I and II and are converted to chemical energy in glucose. In eurkaryotic cells, photosynthesis is carried out in the chloroplast. For photosynthesisit should go: Carbon dioxide + water + light energy>> glucose + oxygen + water. A chemical reaction diagram would be: CO2 + H2O + light energy >> C6H12O6 + O2 + H2O which is the opposite of biochemical pathways.

Cell respiration and photosynthesis both use the process of the conversion of energy, just in different ways. Both use the exchange of the gases; oxygen and carbon dioxide. In both reactions ATP is created through ATP synthase. Their chemical reaction equations are the opposite from each other.

Photosysthesis formula:

6CO2 + 12H2O + light energy (sunlight) >> 6O2 + C6H1206 +6H2O

(Carbon dioxide + water + sunlight&chlorophyll >> glucose + oxygen)

Cellular Respiration formula:

C6H1206 + O2>> CO2 + H2O + ATP

(glucose + oxygen>> carbon dioxide + water + ATP/energy)