Answer to Question #22605 in Biochemistry for cathleen anderson

Question

analyze the similarities and differences between chemosynthesis and photosynthesis. Determine what you believe is the most significant step in regard to harnessing energy within each process, and explain why.

Answer 1

Chemosynthesis and photosynthesis are similar in that thay both make glucose. The main difference is that the sun's energy is used in photosynthesis for making glucose and oxuygen from carbon dioxide and water. Chemosynthesis requires the energy stored in the chemical bonds of inorganic substances.

The most important advantage of the photosynthesis process is that it is a way how to accumulate the energy of sun (inexaustible natural resource)& into the energy of chemical bonds in organic compounds is considered to be .

The significant thing about chemosynthesis is that chemosynthetic process allowed microorganisms to be
& present in the deep sea where light energy from the sun is absent and support large communities and assemblages of higher organisms.