C4 Photosynthesis Rap
A little rap about C4 plants. YAY. (It starts a few seconds into the video)
Corinne, Bree, Sonya, and me :D
The temperature was rising on an uphill slant
Once upon a leaf in a C3 plant
Stomata were open, releasing too much H2O
"How can I close them when photosynthesis is too slow?"
When the C4 plants started sprouting on the hill
They said to C3, Ill live longer than you will.
Ive got these mesophyll cells full of loving PEP
P-E-P carboxylase in Calvins first step
***So some CO2 binds with my loving P-E-P
Making O-A-A, oxaloacetate with 4 atoms of C
Oxaloaceate is made to malate, then it flows
Down the plasmodesmata to a special cell, it goes
To the bundle sheath cells where malate changes shape
Into pyruvate and CO2, then pyruvate escapes
Back to the mesophyll cells where it turns to P-E-P
Back to loving PEP, the final step, before we repeat ***(repeat)
A never-ending cycle getting CO2 to where?
To the bundle sheath cells where theres very little air
So rubisco can fix CO2 without a fight
As oxygen is limited, photorespiration's out of sight
Yeah, photorespiration's out of sight
Yeah, you know it's out of sight!
Yeeeah.
Lyrics by Me
Puppets made by Melinda :)
Rap beat by Streetwork Music