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What is needed to start the light dependent reactions?

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Light and water

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In these reactions, chlorophyll in the grana traps light in form of photons from different wavelengths. Some of the light is used in the photochemical splitting of water into hydrogen ions and oxygen. This is called photolysis of water. the rest of the trapped light is used to drive the formation of ATP from ADP and phosphate.

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