Basic Biology: Refresh My Memory

Factual Questions
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Simply put, do plant cells make ATP?

Seems to me I can recall first learning about ATP (or AMP, ADP) regarding plant cells, but something’s not right with this picture because photosynthesis kinda acts in reverse to store energy from the sun as sugar…by bonding CO2 and H20, in brief. In contrast, animal cells release energy (ATP) by breaking down sugars.

I’ve been brainwashed to only think about animal cells and the production of ATP through glycolysis of sugar and the Kreb’s cycle. Please help me refresh about if we talk about ATP in relation to plant cells…

Thanks,

  • Jinx
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Yes

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Oops, too fast on the trigger finger-

Cite-
http://www.biopoint.com/engaging/plantcell.html

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Plants must utilize energy, as well as storing it, just like animals. So they go through the same entire schtick as we do: glycolysis, Krebs cycle, electron transport chain, and all that. And yes, the procuction of ATP. Photosynthesis just means that the plants can create their own sugars to convert into ATP rather than stealing them from some other source. Only a small amount of photosynthetically produced gets stored as plant tissue that animals can subsequently eat.

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I know nothing about the subject at hand, but your subject header is the best straight line I’m likely to see all day. Thanks.

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Hmm, now if I would have entitled the thread to “refresh my memory on basic anatomy”, that would really be a hysterical thread title, wouldn’t it? :smiley: - Jinx