Chapter 8: Photosynthesis

Question 1

What uses light to make glucose?

Answer 1

Photoautotrophs (Plants, Algae, Cyanobacteria)

Question 2

What uses inorganic compounds to make glucose?

Answer 2

Chemoautotrophs (Thermophilic Bacteria)

Question 3

What relies on sugars produced by autotrophs?

Answer 3

Heterotrophs

Question 4

What are the 2-steps of Photosynthesis?

Answer 4

Light Reactions and Calvin Cycle

Question 5

what is the Photosystem?

Answer 5

The molecular hub of light reaction (first step of photosynthesis)

Question 6

What are the resulting products of the electron transport chain?

Answer 6

NADPH and ATP

Question 7

Which reaction of photosynthesis produces the carbohydrates (sugar) required by plants?

Answer 7

Calvin Cycle

Question 8

Name a molecule that functions as an electron carrier during photosynthetic light reaction.

Answer 8

NADPH

Question 9

What molecule functions as the electron donor to replace the lost electrons from reaction center during the photosynthetic light reaction?

Answer 9

splitting of water molecule