BIOLOGY HOMEWORK

a. Describe the chemical formula that the chloroplast performs to benefit the plant cell.

b. Explain what the structure of the cell wall is made of: what is the compound named, and what basic unit is it made of?

c. The vacuoles of plant cells are incredibly important to the structure of a plant as a whole. Suggest why a plant relies on its vacuoles to stay standing/upright.

The only reaction performed by chloroplast through its chlorophyll is photosyntesis. Therefore the chemical formular is below.

   C02         +          H20           →                   C6H1206    +       O2+           H20.

(carbondioxide) +    (Water)     Chlorophyll      (glucose)  +(oxygen)+     (water)

                                                       and                                                                                            

                                                   enzymes .                    

This is the single reaction of the process of photosynthesis.However two interconnected reactions are involved light dependent stage and light independent stage.

The first reaction takes place in presence of sunlight, and it is called Photolysis of water.it is the spiting of water to H+, electrons and Oxygen. This is  the source of oxygen seen above.

             4 H20→ 4H+ + 4e- + 02.

The light independent stage; the hydrogen ion from the photolysis is transfer to the light independent stage to reduce the C02 to produce glucose.In the first equation seen above.

Since chloroplast performs photosynthesis through action of its chlorophyll, The above reaction describes the chemical formula.

B.

The cell wall  of plants is made up of the middle lamella, the primary cell wall and the secondary cell wall .

Cellulose a complex carbohydrate is the major components. It contains,  monomers of  glucose in small units  linked to one another by bonds.

C

Vacuole helps in plant turgidity needed for uprightness. when filled with water provides  turgor pressure increases as the cell membrane pushes against the cell wall. The resulted turgidity  helps the plants  to maintain resistance to external pressure and therefore resist the effects of gravity.

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