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What is the photolysis of water?


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Photolysis:

  1. It is the splitting of water molecules in the presence of light into a proton, electron, and oxygen.
  2. It occurs in the lumen of thylakoid sacs.
  3. Protons are used to reduce NADP and electrons are fed to photosystem II.

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