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What is photosynthesis and where does it occur?

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  • Proccess that converts solar energy into chemical energy
  • Occurs in the lead of a plant
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What is the formula for photosynthesis

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6CO2 + 6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2

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Light

How does light travel?

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Travels in waves called photons (small units of energy)

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Light

What is the difference between short wavelength and long wavelengths

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  • Short wavelengths have high energy (UV rays, x-rays, gamma rays)
  • Long wavelengths have low energy (infraredm microwaves, radiowaves)
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What is visible light and whats its use in plants?

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  • Visible light is white light which is a mixture of all light
  • plants use it for photosynthesis
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Describe chlorphyll and its use

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  • Green colored pigment
  • Found in plants, algae, protists, and cyanobacteria
  • Absorbs photons and begins photosynthesis
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What is the main pigment of a choroplast?

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Chlorphyll a (blue-green): Most importan pigment to absorb energy

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What are the accesory pigmets and what do they do?

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  • Chlorophyll b (Yellow-green)
  • Carotenoid
  • Take lightand convert it into energy for plant
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What do accesory pigments do?

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They absorb other photon wavelenghts and pass the energy to chlorophyll a

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What is a spectrophotometer?

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An instrument that can determine the absorption spectrum of pigments: shows which pigment absorbs which wavelenght of color

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What is chromtagraphy?

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Technique used to seperate pigments
* Pigmensts dissolved in fluid
* Fluid passes through materials
* pigments move at different speeds (distance)

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Whats the formula for Chromatagrpahy?

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RF value= Distance pigment travels/distance solvents travels

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Chloroplast structure

What is a chloroplast?

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Clusters of chlorophyll are found in plant organelles are called chloroplasts

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Chloroplast structure

What is a Stroma?

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Gel-like enzyme-rich substance filling the chloroplast

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Chloroplast structure

What is a thylakoid?

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A system of membran bound sacs that stack on top of each other. each have lumen which is a fluid-filled space inside

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Chloroplast structure

What is a granum?

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Stacks of thylakoid discs, one chlorplast may have 60 grana each with 30-50 thylakoids

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Chloroplast structuer

Lamella

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Unstacked thylakoids connecting adjacent grana

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What is the palisade tissue cell?

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  • Long, narrow cells packed chloroplast
  • Lie under the upper surfae an is where most photosynthesis happens
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What is the Vascular tissue cell

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  • Bundled arrangement of tubes that transport fluids
  • Xylem carry water and minerals
  • Phloem carry sugars
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what is the Spongy tissue cell?

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  • Round and more loosely packed with air spaces
  • have chloroplass and helps ells exchange gas and water
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What is a Stomata?

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  • Small openings in outer layer
  • Allows carbon dioxide into leaf and oxygen out
  • Water also diffuses
22
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What is the use of glucose?

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  • Transports molecules (blood sugar)
  • Medium-term energy storage
23
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Describe ATP

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  • Is a high energy molecule used by all living cells
  • Provids immediate source of energy for cellular processes
  • formed by addition of ADP and P
24
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Describe NADPH

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  • During photosynthesis NADP+ acquires 1 H atom and 2 E- to form NADPh
  • NADPH is an electron donor so it becomes NADP+ again
  • Inolved in energy transfers
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Stage one of photosynthesis

Photosystems

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  • Clusters of photsynthetic pigments embedded in the thylakoid membrane
  • responsible for capturing light
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Oxidation

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Compounds lose an electron making it oxidized

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Reduction

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Compounds gain electrons making it reduced

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Stage 2 of photosynthesis

Explain the first step of ETC (electron transport chain)

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Electrons from photsystem II are transferred along ETC and across the thylakoid membrane to the inner surface

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Stage 2 of photosynthesis

Explain the second step of ETC

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Some of the energy is used to pull hydrogen ions across the membran which results in positive charge build up in the lumen

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Stage 2 of photosynthesis

Explain the third step of ETC

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Electrons that lost lots of orginal energy are transferred to chlorphyll molecules in psl where they absorb energy again

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Stage 2 of photosynthesis

What is the fourth step in ETC

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High-energy electrons from photosystem I are trasnferred into NADP+ to from NADPH

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Stage 2 of photosynthesis

What are ATP synthase complexes

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Protein complex embedded in thylakoid membrane that allows Hydrogen ions to escape form lumen and use resulting energy to make ATP

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Calvin Cycle

Describe the calvin cycle

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  • Does not require energy from photons
  • Occurs in stroma
  • Main mechanism is cabron fixation: froms high energy organic molecules from CO2
  • Utilizes ATP and high energy electron carried by NADPH to make G3p
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Calvin Cycle

What is G3P and where does it get its needed elements

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  • It is a sugar used to make glucose
  • It gets carbon and oxygen from CO2
  • It gets ATP and NADPH from light dependet reactions
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Calvin Cycle

How much ATP and NADPH is consumed when 1 CO2 enters

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  • 3 ATP
  • 2 NADPH
36
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Calvin Cycle

How much ATP and NADPH produce 1 glucose

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  • 18 ATP
  • 12 NADPH
37
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Calvin Cycle

How much water is consumed for each glucose created

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6 water

38
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Calvin Cycle

Describe Carbon Fixation

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CO2 molecules combin with RuBP which splits into 2-3 carbon compounds (3-PGA)

39
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Calvin Cycle

describe reduction

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ATP and NADPH used to convert 3-PGA into G3P

40
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Calvin Cycle

describe regeneration

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Some G3P makes gljcose, soe are recycled to generate RuBP (requires ATP)

41
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Simplify three stage

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  1. Capturing solar energy -> electrons
  2. Using solar energy -> make ATP, transfer hiigh energy electrons to NADP+; yeilds NADPH which is then used as a high energy electron carrier molecule
  3. Using energy stored in ATP and high energy electrons carried by NADPH to energy rich organic molecules such as gluecose from CO2
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Simplified Light dependent reactions

Step 1: Photo-excitation

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  1. Photon from the sun strikes a molecule of chlorophyll inside of PSII (wavelength of 680)
  2. That electron absorbs the energy from the photon and gets excited (low energy to high energy due to the photon)
  3. It leaves Photosystem II to travel down the ETC towards PSI
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Simplified Light dependent reactions

Step 2 : ETC (PSII → PSI)

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  • Electrons move through the proteins in the ETC
  • As it moves through the ETC, the electron releases energy (decreased potential energy)
  • The chain uses energy released from the electron to bring hydrogen ions into thylakoid
  • Photosystem II transfers the free electron to a series of proteins that are found inside the thylakoid membrane
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Simplified Light dependent reactions

Step 3: Photolysis

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  • Occurs in thylakoid
  • Water is split into hydrogen, oxygen, and a electron
  • Electrons removed from photostem is replaced by water molecules
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Simplified Light dependent reactions

What is photolysis

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Water molecules split by light

46
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Simplified Light dependent reactions

Step 4: chemiosmosis

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  • Hydrogen is pumped into thylakoid lumen and the resulting energy helps generate ATP through a REDOX reaction
  • ATP Synthase Complexes: protein complex embedded in thylakoid membrane that allows H+ ions to escape from lumen and uses the resulting energy to generate ATP
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Simplified Light dependent reactions

Step 5: Reduction ADP→ ATP

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Once the hydrogen ions pass through ATP synthase a reduction reaction occurs

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Simplified Light dependent reactions

Step 6: ETC (PSI→stroma)

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  • Remember: this is occurring within the thylakoid membrane
  • Electron absorbs the energy from the photons (photoexcitation)
  • Once it absorbs a lot of energy, it leaves PSI to head towards the stroma
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Simplified Light dependent reactions

Step 7: Reduction NADP+ → NADPH

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  • NADP+ is reduced
  • NADPH is oxidized
  • NADPH has reducing power because it can donate an electron

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