Answer:
1. ATP - decrease
2.NADPH - decrease
3. sugars - decrease
Explanation:
Photosynthesis is a type of biosynthesis that produces glucose from the reactants: sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water. It occurs in the chloroplast in two phases, the light-dependent, and light-independent/dark reactions where sugars are made. Pigments like chlorophyll absorb light energy at specific wavelengths in the light reaction which activates photosystems
Here:
- chlorophyll forms photosystems (PS I & PSII) with proteins called a complex
- PS II absorbs and transfers light energy to the reaction core.
- a water molecule is split apart to form an electron, H+ and oxygen
- Electrons are shifted to photosystem I from photosystem II.
- ATP and inorganic phosphate are synthesized from ADP.
- H+ is added to NADP to form NADPH
The NADPH is integral to the Calvin Cycle, as part of the light independent reactions- these synthesize sugar molecules.
If PS II no longer works, there will be less ATP, NADPH, and no sugars produced.
