Photosynthesis

Question 1

What is the major function of the stomata?

Answer 1

Gas exchange (O2 out, CO2 in)

Question 2

Which process involves chlorophyll in the thylakiod membranes absorbing solar energy?

Answer 2

Light reactions

Question 3

True or False? Rubisco is an enzyme that can use both carbon dioxide and oxygen as substrates?

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Which of the following organelles are found in both plant and animal cells?

Answer 4

Mitochondria

Question 5

Which of the following parts of the electron transport chain are actually involved with moving protons (H+) across the thylakiod membrane to fill the thylakiod space?

Answer 5

Cytochrome b6f
plastoquinone

Question 6

Vascular tissue found in plants that conducts water and minerals from the soil to the rest of the plant?

Answer 6

Xylem

Question 7

Where does photosynthesis occur?

Answer 7

Chloroplast

Question 8

True or False? C4 plants close their stomata to save water, but this causes them to not have photosynthesis when their stomata are closed.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Only the light reactions of photosynthesis convert solar energy into____________?

Answer 9

ATP

Question 10

The basic unit of photosynthesis is the ______________?

Answer 10

Photon

Question 11

Which process occurs in the fluid stroma of chloroplasts?

Answer 11

Calvin cycle

Question 12

This enzyme is critical to the Calvin cycle of Photosynthesis.

Answer 12

Rubisco

Question 13

Photosynthetic plants are best described as ______________?

Answer 13

Autotrophs

Question 14

Vascular tissue found in plants that conducts sugars made by photosynthesis from the leaves to the rest of the plant.

Answer 14

Phloem

Question 15

The Calvin Cycle requires ___________ and ____________ from the light reactions in order to operate.

Answer 15

ATP and NADPH

Question 16

The membranous sacs that are stacked in the chloroplasts like green pancakes are the _____________?

Answer 16

Thylakiods

Question 17

True or False? Plant cells conduct both respiration and photosynthesis.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

Which enzyme is the most abundant protein on earth and is involved in the Calvin Cycle?

Answer 18

Rubisco

Question 19

Which enzyme attaches to Acetic Acid to prepare it to enter the Citric Acid Cycle?

Answer 19

Coenzyme A

Question 20

Which pigment participates directly in the light reactions and absorbs mainly blue-violet light and red light?

Answer 20

Chlorophyll a

Question 21

Which pigment mainly absorbs blue and orange light?

Answer 21

Chlorophyll b

Question 22

Which pigment helps protect another pigment and mostly absorbs blue green light?

Answer 22

Carotenoids

Question 23

Which process converts glucose into two pyruvate molecules?

Answer 23

Glycolysis

Question 24

Which process involves chlorophyll in the thylakiod membranes absorbing solar energy?

Answer 24

Light reaction

Question 25

Which process occurs in the fluid stroma of chloroplasts?

Answer 25

Calvin Cycle

Question 26

Which process occurs in the matrix of the mitochondria?

Answer 26

Citric Acid or Krebs cycle

Question 27

Which process uses the enzyme Rubisco?

Answer 27

Calvin Cycle

Question 28

In photosynthesis, electrons are transferred from _____________ to help make _______________.

Answer 28

H2O ........... C6H12 O 6

Question 29

True or False? Leaves are green because they absorb green wavelengths of light?

Answer 29

False

Question 30

Only the light reactions of photosynthesis convert solar energy into _____________?

Answer 30

ATP