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1
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What suffix does an enzyme typically end in?

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“Ase”

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Where does photosynthesis occur?

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Chloroplast

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Where is chloroplast found?

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In the cells of the mesophyll

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What does the chloroplast contain?

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Stroma and Thylakoids, membranous sacs

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The openings in a leaf where the carbon dioxide enters and oxygen exits the leaf

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Stromata

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What reaction converts solar energy to chemical energy?

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Light Reactions

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What cycle makes sugar from carbon dioxide?

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Calvin Cycle

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a group of chlorophyll ( and other molecules) that function as a light-gathering antenna

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Photosystem

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How is breathing related to cellular respiration?

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When you inhale you breathe in O2, which is delivered to your cells and is used during cellular respiration. CO2 is a waste product of cellular respiration and is exhaled.

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Using the energy from light, what is the initial electron donor in photosynthesis?

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Chlorophyll

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What all does a plant need for growth?

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Sunlight, water, carbon dioxide

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When oxygen is released as a result of photosynthesis, what is its source?

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Splitting of H2O

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Photosynthetic organisms include?

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Protists and Bacteria

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Why are leaves green?

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The chlorophyll and other pigments reflect green light while absorbing other light.

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Which stage is responsible for completing the breakdown of glucose all the way to CO2, which is then released as a waste product?

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Citric Acid Cycle

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What is the correct order of light reactions of photosynthesis?
electron transport, making NADPH, light capture, making ATP, electron excitation

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Light Capture- Electron Excitation- Electron Transport- making ATP- making NADPH

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Where is chlorophyll found in chloroplasts?

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In thylakoids

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18
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What are the reactants of photosynthesis?

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CO2 and H2O

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List some similarities between the electron transfer process of photosynthesis with the electron transfer chain of cellular respiration.

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  • Both use electron to generate ATP
  • Both use electrons carries to donate electrons
  • Both involve transformation of energy
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What part of the plant can be term its “food factory”

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Leaves

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What is the process known for that ultimately feeds the world?

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Photosynthesis

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About ** percent of the energy produced by your body each day is used to sustain your brain.

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20%

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What is the end result of the Calvin Cycle?

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To produce sugars

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What provides the energy to drive the photosynthesis chemical reactions?

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Sunlight

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What pathway in photosynthesis captures carbon dioxide?
Calvin Cycle
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Which 2 metabolic pathways directly involve oxygen?
Photosynthesis and Electron Transport Chain
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What 3 things are needed for the Calvin Cycle?
ATP, NADPH, and carbon
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Where does the mass of a plant come from?
Carbon
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Which wavelength of light is/ are best absorbed by the chlorophyll in plants?
Blue and red
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What occurs in the first photosystem?
Photons excite electrons for transfer to an electron transport chain.
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What are the products of photosynthesis?
O2 and glucose
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What do cell respiration and photosynthesis have in common?
Both produce and use ATP
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Carbon fixation includes the addition of carbon dioxide to?
RuBP
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After 3-PGA is phosphorylated, it receives energized electrons from?
NADPH
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How many carbon dioxide molecules must be added to RuBP to make a single molecule of glucose?
6
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In the Calvin Cycle, how many ATP molecules are required to regenerate RuBP from five G3P molecules?
3
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T/F-Red has a longer wavelength than green.
True
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The "phot-" part of the word "photosynthesis" refers to the light reactions that occur in what?
Thylakoids... the incorporation of carbon dioxide
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How do CAM plants conserve water?
By opening their stomata only at night
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What wavelength of light is best absorbed by chlorophyll a, the pigment participates directly in the light reactions?
435 nm
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What wavelength of light is best absorbed by chlorophyll b?
455 nm
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Why do carotenoids appear yellow and oranage?
They absorb blue/green light and reflect yellow and red wavelengths of light.
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In photosynthesis, plants use__ to make sugar and other organic materials.
Carbon Dioxide
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The most important role of pigments in photosynthesis is to capture?
light energy
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What are the end products of photosynthesis?
Glucose and Molecular oxygen
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Where does oxygen gas come from?
Photosynthesis; Oxygen is released when water is broken down to extract electrons and protons for use in the light reactions
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The light reactions produce what?
Oxygen, NADPH, and ATP
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The thylakoid membranes bring together the components necessary to carry out what kind of reaction?
Light Reaction
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How do incoming photons of light energy initiate photosynthesis?
By exciting electrons in pigment molecules with the photosystems, raising them to a higher energy level
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Which option properly summarizes the inputs and outputs of the Calvin Cycle? H20+light energy- ATP+NADPH+02 gas H2)+light energy+ CO2- glucose+ O2 gas ATP+NADPH+3CO2- G3P
ATP+NADPH+3CO2- G3P
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When light strikes chlorophyll molecules, the lose electrons, which are ultimately replaced by other electrons obtained by?
Splitting water
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In photosynthesis, what is the fate of the oxygen atoms present in CO2? They end up____?
in sugar molecules and in water
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In the electromagnetic spectrum, the type of radiation that we call visible light occurs between?
UV radiation and infrared radiation
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Plant cells that contain the organelle responsible for photosynthesis are concentrated in cells of the___?
Leaves
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What color is most strongly reflected by chlorophyll?
Green
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During photosynthesis in chloroplasts, O2 is produced from___ via a series of reactions associated with___.
H2O and the water-splitting photosystem
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What is the Earth's ultimate energy source?
Sunlight
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What organelle does photosynthesis take place in?
Chloroplast
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What connects the two photosystems in the light reaction?
Electron Support Chain
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What 2 molecules are produced by the light reactions and used to power the Calvin Cycle?
ATP and NADPH
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What provides electrons for the light reactions?
H2O
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What transports electrons from the light reactions to the Calvin Cycle?
NADPH
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The light reactions take place in the____ and the Calvin Cycle takes place in the____.
Thylakoids and stroma
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In C3 plants the conversation of water promotes what?
Photorespiration
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In C4 and CAM plants carbon dioxide is fixed in the ___ of mesophyll cells.
Cytoplasm
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C4 plants differ from C3 and CAM plants in that C4 plants?
Transfer fixed CO2 to cells in which the Calvin Cycle occurs
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What is produced in the thylakoids and consumed by the reactions in the storms of a chloroplast?
ATP and NADPH
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6H2O+6CO2+ Sunlight —- C6H12O6+6O2
Photosynthesis
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6O2+C6H12O6—ATP+6CO2+6H2O
Cellular Respiration

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