Calvin Cycle

Question 1

What does the Calvin cycle do with ATP and NADPH?

Answer 1

Converts it back into lower energy forms (ADP and NADP+)

Question 2

What happens to ADP and NADP+ once they’ve been used?

Answer 2

They go back to the light reactions to be converted back into ATP and NADPH

Question 3

Where does the Calvin Cycle take place?

Answer 3

THe stroma- Chloroplast’s thick fluid

Question 4

What happens at the beginning of the Calvin Cycle?

Answer 4

CO2 Combines with RuBP, which goes through a series of reactions powered by ATP and NADPH from light reactions, making G3Ps.

Question 5

What happens to most of the G3Ps in the Calvin Cycle?

Answer 5

THey’re rearranged into RuBPs that will begin the Calvin Cycle again.

Question 6

What happens to one G3P in the Calvin Cycle?

Answer 6

It can be used to build glucose, which can be combined to make starch, sucrose or cellulose. Some can be broken down by cellular respiration using Oxygen from the Mitochondria, making ATPs that can power other work of the plant