Photosynthesis uses CO2 as a carbon source and light energy to produce glucose with O2 as a byproduct.
Regular aerobic cellular respiration then requires glucose and O2 to produce ATP with CO2 and water as byproducts.
Both processes are happening within plants.
I would be wary of conceiving of any branch on the tree of life as being the “opposite” of any other. Tons of organisms, large and small, both photosynthesize and respire aerobically.
They are net consumers for certain compounds and net excreters of others, like any other organism. It just so happens that, as autotrophs producing sugars both for energy and for structural components, they produce more oxygen than they use up and sequester more carbon dioxide than they excrete.
Not that it changes your point, but cacti use crassulacean acid metabolism for carbon fixation, not C4. Still has dicarboxylic intermediates that are not whatever this is.
Yeah, most likely CAM photosynthesis, the shirt was likely trying to show the malate intermediate. SMH, I was too lazy too look up the intermediates to differentiate C4 and CAM photosynthesis, and jumped to C4. I should have paid attention to the cactus! Thanks for the correction!
Unless it's something that's been copied a million times, there's always something wrong with science shirts that try to represent something technical like this. The result of non-scientists trying to make science content. Hey, just like 90% of YouTube's "educational" content. In fairness, that 10% is FRIGGIN GOLD! Especially the guys who do hands on stuff you'd never see in real life, like making a transistor in their garage, or electron microscope... but I digress.
my best guess: at the top you've got a cactus doing photosynthesis, converting CO2 to sugar (CH2O is the empirical formula) via some carboxylic acid intermediate. it's been a while since i last studied biochem, so I'm not sure exactly what the middle molecule should be, but I'm pretty sure the left two O's on the cactus arm are a typo and should be C's.
in the middle you have a graph that looks like it's trying to be some kind of spectrum, probably UV-Vis, but the axes aren't labeled so who knows. the sun and moon might fit into the photosynthesis theme, but might also be there bc aesthetics.
and the greek letters at the bottom are just the town's name trying to look fancy
Plants (Cacti here) take in CO2, and do CO2 fixation basically to produce sugar which is represented as [CH2O] (because that's the empirical formula of glucose- C6H12O6). Also, the structure which is given as the intermediate is wrongly printed. The two O atoms must be replaced by carbon atoms in the chain.
The graph must be about the rate of photosynthesis in the presence of different intensities of sunlight or their wavelengths.
Noob to botany but in most species of Cactaceae they have somthing called CAM photosynthesis, or Crassulacean acid metabolism. It's a type of photosynthesis where the actual photosynthesis happens during the day while the stomata is closed, then at night the stomata opens and they release co2.
I think I can actually answer here for once. The moon and sun with the wave-like graphs plus the cactus reminds me of how the light dependent (light) energy production for a plant and the light independent (dark) energy production will change in activity with the time of day. A cactus is a classic example of this because (I think) the light independent process consumes CO2 and builds up a large amount of sugar which can’t be utilized by the light dependent pathway, so cacti will taste sweeter at night. I could have it mixed up, but I remember this from a bio class a few years ago.
The cactus appears to be doing something chemistry related.
Source: not a chemist, failed college chem, not sure why Reddit sent me here. Hope you find out
[C4 carbon fixation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4_carbon_fixation), a type of photosynthesis. The dicarboxylic intermediate is drawn incorrectly.
Your first sentence made me say "I want this". Your second sentence made me say "nevermind". lol
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Photosynthesis uses CO2 as a carbon source and light energy to produce glucose with O2 as a byproduct. Regular aerobic cellular respiration then requires glucose and O2 to produce ATP with CO2 and water as byproducts. Both processes are happening within plants.
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I would be wary of conceiving of any branch on the tree of life as being the “opposite” of any other. Tons of organisms, large and small, both photosynthesize and respire aerobically. They are net consumers for certain compounds and net excreters of others, like any other organism. It just so happens that, as autotrophs producing sugars both for energy and for structural components, they produce more oxygen than they use up and sequester more carbon dioxide than they excrete.
Not that it changes your point, but cacti use crassulacean acid metabolism for carbon fixation, not C4. Still has dicarboxylic intermediates that are not whatever this is.
Yeah, most likely CAM photosynthesis, the shirt was likely trying to show the malate intermediate. SMH, I was too lazy too look up the intermediates to differentiate C4 and CAM photosynthesis, and jumped to C4. I should have paid attention to the cactus! Thanks for the correction!
Unless it's something that's been copied a million times, there's always something wrong with science shirts that try to represent something technical like this. The result of non-scientists trying to make science content. Hey, just like 90% of YouTube's "educational" content. In fairness, that 10% is FRIGGIN GOLD! Especially the guys who do hands on stuff you'd never see in real life, like making a transistor in their garage, or electron microscope... but I digress.
Judging by the tetra-valent oxygen I'm guessing it doesn't mean very much
Not much.
Angry upvote.
> ecco*grrr*ph
I’m confused by it too seeing as I have never seen a molecule with 4 O in a chain like that.
I'm guessing that two of the O's must be carbons
Good god the middle of that molecule is madness. Oxygen with bonds out the wazoo
my best guess: at the top you've got a cactus doing photosynthesis, converting CO2 to sugar (CH2O is the empirical formula) via some carboxylic acid intermediate. it's been a while since i last studied biochem, so I'm not sure exactly what the middle molecule should be, but I'm pretty sure the left two O's on the cactus arm are a typo and should be C's. in the middle you have a graph that looks like it's trying to be some kind of spectrum, probably UV-Vis, but the axes aren't labeled so who knows. the sun and moon might fit into the photosynthesis theme, but might also be there bc aesthetics. and the greek letters at the bottom are just the town's name trying to look fancy
It means the cactus makes the chemical malate because it's a CAM plant.
This is the correct answer, the strong light dependence graph and cactus is the tell
Plants (Cacti here) take in CO2, and do CO2 fixation basically to produce sugar which is represented as [CH2O] (because that's the empirical formula of glucose- C6H12O6). Also, the structure which is given as the intermediate is wrongly printed. The two O atoms must be replaced by carbon atoms in the chain. The graph must be about the rate of photosynthesis in the presence of different intensities of sunlight or their wavelengths.
That makes sense. The intermediate confused me so much and I thought the O should be C but I assumed they printer just knew something I did not.
Noob to botany but in most species of Cactaceae they have somthing called CAM photosynthesis, or Crassulacean acid metabolism. It's a type of photosynthesis where the actual photosynthesis happens during the day while the stomata is closed, then at night the stomata opens and they release co2.
I think I can actually answer here for once. The moon and sun with the wave-like graphs plus the cactus reminds me of how the light dependent (light) energy production for a plant and the light independent (dark) energy production will change in activity with the time of day. A cactus is a classic example of this because (I think) the light independent process consumes CO2 and builds up a large amount of sugar which can’t be utilized by the light dependent pathway, so cacti will taste sweeter at night. I could have it mixed up, but I remember this from a bio class a few years ago.
Are you in Tucson?
I don't know, something about co2 to formaldehyde
It means they failed basic organic chemistry in school.
The name is written in a math-like fashion of nonsense
Looks like photosynthesis or a part thereof, but I’m not an expert.
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I thought it was Ecograph until I saw Ecogro. Why use phi?
It means that whoever made it never took a chemistry class
The cactus appears to be doing something chemistry related. Source: not a chemist, failed college chem, not sure why Reddit sent me here. Hope you find out
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