Learning Objectives

1. Understand the main pathways by which energy from the sun or from specific chemical reactions enters organisms and passes from organism to organism and/or back into the environment.
2. Know the steps of the light-dependent and light-independent reactions. Know the raw materials needed to start each phase and know the products made by each phase.
3. Explain how autotrophs use the intermediates as well as the products of photosynthesis in their own metabolism.