Introduction
To survive, all organisms need energy. Plants get most of their energy from photosynthesis. Plants are autotrophs, that generate their own chemical energy from the product of the sun through photosynthesis. The chemical energy that plants get from the sun is used to produce glucose that can be burned in mitochondria to make ATP, which is then used to drive all the energy-requiring processes in the plant.
Photosynthesis occurs in plants in the chloroplast, an organelle specific to plant cells. In prokaryotes that perform photosynthesis, there are no chloroplasts; instead, photosynthesis occurs in association with the plasma membrane or infoldings of the membranes. Chloroplasts are found mainly in the cells of mesophyll, the green tissue in the interior of the leaf.
In the lab we replaced the electron-accepting coenzyme, NADP, with the blue DPIP dye. When DPIP was reduced, it had changed its color from blue to colorless. The DPIP reduction led to the......

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