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 UNIT 2: BIOENERGETICS, BIOSYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
MODULE 1: BIOENERGETICS AND CONSERVATION

GENERAL OBJECTIVES

On completion of this Module, students should:

1. understand the process of photosynthesis, its role in transforming light energy and the effects
of the limiting factors on plant productivity;

2. understand the process of cellular respiration and its role in producing Adenosine
Triphosphate (ATP);

3. understand energy flow and nutrient cycling in ecosystems and their role in maintaining the
stability of these ecosystems;

4. appreciate the ecosystem as a dynamic system involving different types of interactions
between biotic and abiotic components;

5. understand how different types of diversity contribute to overall biodiversity; and,

6. develop an appreciation of conservation practices.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES EXPLANATORY NOTES SUGGESTED PRACTICAL
ACTIVITIES

1. Photosynthesis and ATP Synthesis

Students should be able to:

1.1. relate the structure of a Annotated diagrams Make diagrams from
dicotyledonous leaf, a required. prepared slides of a
palisade cell and a transverse section of a
chloroplast to their roles in dicotyledonous leaf, and a
the process of palisade cell.
photosynthesis;

1.2. explain the process of ATP’s functions as the
photophosphorylation with universal energy
respect to photosynthetic “currency” in all living
electron transport; organisms. Include the role
of pigments, electron
carriers and the
establishment of proton
gradients across thylakoid
membranes in the process.

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