Unlike plants and cyanobacteria, photosynthetic bacteria, such as purple sulfur ... and the core light-harvesting reaction ...

Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, algae and certain types of bacteria synthesise carbohydrates ... stages - the light and dark reactions. NADPH and ATP generated during the light ...

The reactions of this stage also ... split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen and ATP are both transferred to the second stage of photosynthesis. Some of the oxygen produced can be used ...