Relationship Between Photosynthesis And Cellular Respiration

The carbon cycle is a biogeochemical cycle that displays how carbon circulates throughout the environment. Many components affect this process such as photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Photosynthesis uses the carbon dioxide that is in the atmosphere to transform it into sugar and oxygen; cellular respiration puts carbon dioxide in the air. Both of these processes were studied during the experiment. In the experiment, the tube with both the elodea and the snail had the same level of carbon dioxide in both the light and dark tube. This occurred because the snail performed cellular respiration, and the elodea performed both photosynthesis and cellular respiration. In the light, the solution was a yellow green, and in the dark, the solution was a yellow green. From this experiment, there is some carbon dioxide present when an organism that performs both cellular respiration and photosynthesis and another organism that performs only cellular respiration are paired together. Based on this evidence, there was some carbon dioxide left in the tube. Photosynthesis takes place mostly during the day and during parts of the night; cellular respiration, on the other hand, occurs all the time. The tubes that were placed in the light had
Carbon sinks balance the carbon dioxide levels because they add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, but then take the carbon dioxide back in, like the elodea. An example like the elodea demonstrates characteristics of carbon sinks because when both photosynthesis and cellular respiration take place, it is adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, then taking it back. Elodea is found in water; this acts as a carbon sink because the ocean is a large source of carbon, and the elodea takes in some of the carbon from the ocean, along with the carbon dioxide the elodea produces. Elodea and other producers are useful as carbon sinks because they absorb carbon through