Finding Glucose!

Your first step 1. Hop into your cab of sun and take a trip to Chloroplast County.

Chloroplast County  You will search for thykaloids here that are found in stacks called grana’s.  You will need these thykaloids to capture the energy from your cab to move into the Water Ways.

Water Ways  Here you will find a plant and pull it up to find how water is absorbed by the roots and conducted throughout the plant.  Next you will move to Carbon Dioxide Canada.

Carbon Dioxide Canada  Here you will enter a lab and breath out and see your carbon dioxide that will be a main source in your journey.  Then drive on to Pigment Play land where you will be absorbed by the pigments.

Pigment Play land  Here you will need to find 2 types of chlorophyll which are A and B.  You will then need to see how they are arranged in their photosystems and the different wavelengths that go into them.  Next move onto the Wavelength Rainbow.

Wavelength Rainbow  Here you will find useful and not useful colors for pigments.  You will need red and blue but don’t worry about the green because its useless.  Now go into Molecule Mania

Molecule Mania  Here you will find how molecules will function by transferring hydrogen and electrons  You will also need to search for ATP here.  Next move to Light Reaction Paradise.

Light Reaction Paradise  You will watch as you are transformed into chemical energy and carried by ATP and NADPH into Calvin Cycle Central.  It might take a couple times before your transferred though

Calvin Cycle Central  You will now see how Six molecules of Carbon dioxide each combine with a 6 molecules of a 5-carbon sugar to form 3- carbon molecules.  The ATP and NADPH that carried you are now going to convert the 3 molecule into a 2 molecule to produce the main treasure Glucose.

Glucose  Now that you have found have the glucose is made you have won and Your award is some sugars!