Light Dependent Reactions Lab Report

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Light Dependent Reactions:
Light dependent reactions are the effects that occur in photosynthetic organisms in response to solar energy and is the initial process of photosynthesis. Another name for light dependent reactions is, non-cyclic photophosphorylation. The site of these reactions occurs within the chloroplast in what is known as the Thylakoid membrane. Light is absorbed by something called photosystems (PSI AND PSII) and is part of all photosynthetic organisms. The light energy collected in this process will later become chemical energy. The process starts out with the excited electrons in PSII and then PSI. These electrons become excited from the absorption of light. The high energy electrons in PSI go down something called the electron

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