Question

What are the 3 products of photosynthesis? Which of these molecules stores the energy collected from light? Which of these are considered waste products?

What cellular organelles are found in plant cells but not in animal cells?

Answer 1

Photosynthesis is represented by the following chemical equation:

12H2O + 6CO2 + light energy ----> C6H12O6 + 6H2O + 6O2. Here first product is simple sugar .And this sugar is called glucose, is the end result of the conversion of solar energy to chemical energy. it represents stored energy that can used by plants or concumsed by other organisms. But plants not use oxygen they release it as a waste product through their leaves in the atmosphere. Water is also a product of the photosynthesis.

Plant and animal cells have the same organelles, because they both are eukaryotes.But there are few things that are only present in plants not in animals are:

1) Plastids are the organelle which are found in plants cells only such as: Chloroplasts( for photosynthesis)) , Chromoplasts( for pigmentation), Amyloplasts (starch storing plastids), Leucoplasts (store lipids, proteins , and starch).

2) Plant cell have a cell wall.

3) Plant cell have a large central vacuole, which animal cell vacuoles are smaller.