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Chapter 7 Flashcards

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What is Photosynthesis?

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A process that captures solar energy

●Transforms solar energy into chemical energy

●Energy ends up stored in a carbohydrate

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Name the products of the light reactions.

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What is the destination of these products?

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Name the product(s) of the light independent reactions.

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What are these products used to build?

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How many electrons carriers in the ETC (the electron transport chain) function as hydrogen ion (proton) pumps?

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Describe the role of NADP reductase.

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Describe the flow of electrons in the light reactions including PSII, PSII, the ETC, and NADP reductase

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What is an ATP synthase protein?

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What is its role?

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Where is it located in a chloroplast?

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What role does Rubisco (RuBP carboxylase) play in photosynthesis?

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How does this differ, or does it, in C3, C4, and CAM photosynthesis?

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What is the purpose of sending electrons down the ETC between PSI and PS II?

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In what form is energy stored after the electrons move down ETC?

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Into what form is the energy transformed directly after this step?

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Explain how carbon dioxide fixation occurs in photosynthesis.

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Does this happen in the light or dark reactions?

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What enzyme is involved?

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How efficient is this enzyme?

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What is the pivotal product that is formed by and leaves the Calvin cycle and can be used to form any other molecule made by plants?

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How many carbons does it contain?

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the four metabolites of the Calvin cycle?

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What are the positions in the cycle of four metabolites?

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What is added to the four metabolites to form them?

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Draw the Calvin cycle from memory.

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How many carbon dioxide molecules must be added before one G3P can leave? Why?

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Where does the oxygen produced in photosynthesis originate?

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With which photosystem is this process associated?

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Explain the difference between C3, C4, and CAM plants?

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What is advantage possessed by C4 plants?

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What’s their (C4 plants) disadvantage?

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What is advantage possessed by CAM plants?advantage and disadvantage.

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