Can bacteria do photosynthesis?

If so, what is different about how they do photosynthesis from how plants do photosynthesis?

Can bacteria do photosynthesis?
some bacteria can do photosynthesis


the first photosynthetic organisms were actually bacteria


we should thank the oxygen we breathe today to them





i am not sure they have a difference.
Reply:Depends on the bacteria; most are decomposers without chloroplasts.
Reply:only the ones with chloroplasts
Reply:yes they can, it is not different.
Reply:yes cynobacteria can do photosynthesis and they are wrongly called as blue green algae due to their this property.


they have chloroplast in their cells.
Reply:Photosynthetic bacteria do not have chloroplasts (or any membrane-bound organelles). Instead, photosynthesis takes place directly within the cell. Cyanobacteria contain thylakoid membranes very similar to those in chloroplasts and are the only prokaryotes that perform oxygen-generating photosynthesis. In fact chloroplasts are now considered to have evolved from an endosymbiotic bacterium, which was also an ancestor of and later gave rise to cyanobacterium. The other photosynthetic bacteria have a variety of different pigments, called bacteriochlorophylls, and do not produce oxygen. Some bacteria, such as Chromatium, oxidize hydrogen sulfide instead of water for photosynthesis, producing sulfur as waste.





The above text was taken from wikipedia link below. The third link is a very good source as well, contains nice videos of bacterial photosynthesis.