Multiple mechanisms are taken place in different types of plants to maintain the efficacy of photosynthesis. Plants fall within three categories: C3 plants, C4 plants, or CAM plants. C3 plants are the most common type of plant, C4 plants consist of mainly tropical plants, and CAM plants are succulents, such as cacti, which are found in arid and hot environments, such as the deserts. Each one of these plants have a specific enzyme in which it binds atmospheric carbon dioxide, with high affinity, in order to produce one molecule of glucose. The enzyme associated with C3 plants that converts carbon dioxide into glucose is known as ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, RuBisCo.
This enzyme is regulated by carbon dioxide and oxygen, …show more content…
Turning on CCM effectively lowers the chance that oxygen will bind with ribulose bisphosphate (RuBisCo); therefore a slider was created to test the effectiveness of CCM on the tree between 75 percent to 100 percent. For example, if the slider were at 88% CCM effectiveness, that means carbon dioxide would bind to RuBisCo 88 percent of the time, while oxygen would bind RuBisCo 12 percent of the time. The same value for carbon dioxide absorbed per tick, 2.301*10-4, was used to test the effects of CCM on C3 plants. As for converting the present information, the previous number was converted to moles through the use of the ratio between carbon dioxide to oxygen and glucose in the photosynthesis equation, 6CO2 + 6H2O + light C6H12O6 + 6O2, to receive the grams of glucose (C6H12O6) and oxygen as an output in NetLogo. Additionally, graphs were used as a visual representation for carbon dioxide absorbed, oxygen emitted, and glucose produced.
The simulation was programmed to stop after 24 hours passed. The NetLogo simulation was ran twenty times in total, with ten trails ran at 87.5% effectiveness of the carbon concentrating mechanism, which is halfway between 75% and 100%, and ten trials ran at 100% effectiveness of the mechanism. When the simulation was ran at 100% effectiveness of CCM, it produced the exact results each time it was ran. However, when the simulation …show more content…
With the carbon concentrating mechanism at 87.5% effectiveness, the average amount of carbon dioxide absorbed was 24,900.23 grams per year, the amount of oxygen emitted was 134,703.1 grams per year, and the amount of glucose produced was 16,938.48 grams per year. This showed an overall average increase of 14.2965% absorption of carbon dioxide. With the carbon concentrating mechanism at 100% effectiveness, which was run with several trials, the average amount of carbon dioxide absorbed was 29,039.04 grams per year, the amount of oxygen emitted was 157,093.4 grams per year, and the amount of glucose produced was 19,754.17 grams per year, for an overall average increase of absorption of carbon dioxide at 33.2951%.
Putting this into perspective by assuming there are 478 trees per acre on average, there would be 10,407,016 grams of carbon dioxide absorbed per year without C3 plants consisting of the carbon concentrating mechanism. However, C3 plants with the carbon concentrating mechanism at an effectiveness of 87.5% there would 11,902,309.24 grams of carbon dioxide absorbed per year. C3 plants with CCM at 100% effectiveness would absorb 13,880,661.12 grams of carbon dioxide per year. This amount of absorption of carbon dioxide by C3 plants at 100% effectiveness of CCM is equal to a car’s emissions for a
This enzyme is regulated by carbon dioxide and oxygen, …show more content…
Turning on CCM effectively lowers the chance that oxygen will bind with ribulose bisphosphate (RuBisCo); therefore a slider was created to test the effectiveness of CCM on the tree between 75 percent to 100 percent. For example, if the slider were at 88% CCM effectiveness, that means carbon dioxide would bind to RuBisCo 88 percent of the time, while oxygen would bind RuBisCo 12 percent of the time. The same value for carbon dioxide absorbed per tick, 2.301*10-4, was used to test the effects of CCM on C3 plants. As for converting the present information, the previous number was converted to moles through the use of the ratio between carbon dioxide to oxygen and glucose in the photosynthesis equation, 6CO2 + 6H2O + light C6H12O6 + 6O2, to receive the grams of glucose (C6H12O6) and oxygen as an output in NetLogo. Additionally, graphs were used as a visual representation for carbon dioxide absorbed, oxygen emitted, and glucose produced.
The simulation was programmed to stop after 24 hours passed. The NetLogo simulation was ran twenty times in total, with ten trails ran at 87.5% effectiveness of the carbon concentrating mechanism, which is halfway between 75% and 100%, and ten trials ran at 100% effectiveness of the mechanism. When the simulation was ran at 100% effectiveness of CCM, it produced the exact results each time it was ran. However, when the simulation …show more content…
With the carbon concentrating mechanism at 87.5% effectiveness, the average amount of carbon dioxide absorbed was 24,900.23 grams per year, the amount of oxygen emitted was 134,703.1 grams per year, and the amount of glucose produced was 16,938.48 grams per year. This showed an overall average increase of 14.2965% absorption of carbon dioxide. With the carbon concentrating mechanism at 100% effectiveness, which was run with several trials, the average amount of carbon dioxide absorbed was 29,039.04 grams per year, the amount of oxygen emitted was 157,093.4 grams per year, and the amount of glucose produced was 19,754.17 grams per year, for an overall average increase of absorption of carbon dioxide at 33.2951%.
Putting this into perspective by assuming there are 478 trees per acre on average, there would be 10,407,016 grams of carbon dioxide absorbed per year without C3 plants consisting of the carbon concentrating mechanism. However, C3 plants with the carbon concentrating mechanism at an effectiveness of 87.5% there would 11,902,309.24 grams of carbon dioxide absorbed per year. C3 plants with CCM at 100% effectiveness would absorb 13,880,661.12 grams of carbon dioxide per year. This amount of absorption of carbon dioxide by C3 plants at 100% effectiveness of CCM is equal to a car’s emissions for a