what we did in class 11/29/09

This week in class we discussed the formula for photosynthesis. We know the outcome is glucose or C6H12O6. We also know that to get photosynthesis you need CO2, H2O and sunlight. but the question was how do you get from that to C6H12O6. We made up an equation that gets us through the process to get us to glucose.

In Photosynthesis there is H2O and CO2. We need 12 hydrogen molecules and since there are 2 per H2O we would need 6 H2O molecules to give us H12O6. Then we need 6 carbon molecules so we need 6 CO2's and that gives us C6O12. That combined is C6H12O18. Then the oxygen molecules are let out into the air leaving us with C6H12O6 or glucose or food for the plant that we get from photosynthesis.