Chapter 7- Phtosynthesis Flashcards
What are autotrophs?
Organisms capable of making their own food
What are photoautotrophs?
Organisms capable of making their own food, and food for heterotrophs (you and me), using the energy of sunlight to make organic molecules from water and carbon dioxide
Photosynthesis occurs in what 3 things?
Plants
Uni/multi-cellular algae
Some prokaryotes
Photosynthesis consists of how many stages?
2
What are the 2 stages of photosynthesis?
Light reactions (the photo part) Calvin cycle (synthesis part)
The light reactions occur where?
In the thylakoids
Light reactions do what?
Split water
Release O2
Produce ATP
Form NADPH
How does CO2/O2 enters/exits plant cells?
Through tiny pores called Stomata
The chloroplast is formed by ______ membranes, enclosing an inner compartment filled with ______.
Two
Stroma, a thick fluid
What is suspended in the Stroma of the chloroplast?
Thylakoids
Thylakoids, concentrated in stacks, are called what?
Grana (singular: granum)
The thylakoids membranes contain what?
The chlorophyll molecules that capture light energy
During photosynthesis, in the summary equation, which molecules are split first two obtain sugar?
Who hypothesized this?
When was it confirmed?
Summary equation:
(6CO2 + 6H20 = C6H12O6 + 602)
Breaks the bonds of water, not carbon dioxide, to produce the 6O2 from photosynthesis.
1930s- C.B. van Niel
Confirmed 20 years later
Photosynthesis and _____ are _____ reactions.
Redox reactions
What becomes reduced and oxidized in the photosynthesis summary equation?
CO2 become reduced
H2O becomes oxidized
The Calvin cycle occurs where?
In the Stroma of the chloroplast
The Calvin cycle forms _____ from _____, using _____ and _____.
Sugar
CO2
ATP (product of light cycle)
NADPH (product of light cycle)
Light reactions occur where?
In the thylakoids
What is the process of light reactions?
- Water is split, 02 is released outside the chloroplast
- H+ electrons are transferred to the electron carrier NADP+, reducing it to NADPH
- Generate ATP FROM ADP + P
Light reactions produce _____ and the Calvin cycle produces _____.
O2
Sugar
What is the first step of the Calvin cycle?
Carbon fixation
What is carbon fixation?
Incorporating carbon from CO2 into organic compounds
Once carbon fixation is complete, what occurs in the Calvin cycle?
The carbon compounds are reduced to sugars
The electrons required in the Calvin cycle to reduce carbon compounds comes from where?
The NADPH produced from the light cycle
Chemical energy (ATP) for the Calvin cycle comes from where?
ATP produced in the light cycle