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🌿 Photosynthesis 🌿 Flashcards

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1
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Endothermic

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(of a reaction or process) accompanied by or requiring the absorption of heat

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Where photosynthesis takes place

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In chloroplasts

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How many simple substances photosynthesis involves combining

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Two
- water
- carbon dioxide

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Where is the water from in photosynthesis?

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Soil

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Where is the CO2 from in photosynthesis?

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The air

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6
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What water and CO2 form

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Sugar (glucose)

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What are the by-products of photosynthesis?

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Sugar (glucose) + oxygen

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Where does the energy required for photosynthesis come from?

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Sunlight

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9
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What traps sunlight?

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Green pigment chlorophyll contained within chloroplasts

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10
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What is contained within chloroplasts?

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Chlorophyll

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11
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Is photosynthesis endothermic

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Yes

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12
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Photosynthesis word equation

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CO2 + H2O —-> glucose + O
light

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Chemical equation for photosynthesis

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6CO2 + 6H2O ———> C6H12O6 + 6O2

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How glucose produced in photosynthesis is used by the plant

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  • respiration 🫁
  • storage 📦
  • made into different substances
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How glucose produced by photosynthesis is used for respiration

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Broken down 🧱 in respiration produce energy 🏃‍♀️

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How glucose produced in photosynthesis is used for storage

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Converted into starch and stored in the leaves

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How glucose produced by photosynthesis is made into useful substances

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Converted into cellulose for cell walls, chlorophyll and protein for growth

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How protein is used by plants

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Growth

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19
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What much of the sugar produced by photosynthesis is converted to

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Starch for storage 📦 in leaves 🍃

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Test for starch

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Iodine

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21
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Positive starch, Iodine colour change

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Orange to blue– black

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22
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What does the presence of starch in a leaf indicate?

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Photosynthesis has taken place

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23
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Why is the leaf initially place in boiling water in the starch test?

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  • kills the leaf
  • stops chemical reactions
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Why is the leaf in the starch test transferred to boiling ethanol?

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Remove chlorophyll

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25
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How do you de-starch a leaf?

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By leaving the plant in the dark for at least two days

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Why do you de-starch leaves before any experiments?

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  • To ensure any starch already in the leaves is used up before the experiment
  • Therefore it’s a starch test at the end of the investigation is positive starch present must’ve been produced during the investigation
  • fair test
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What is the aim of the light experiment?

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To discover if the light is needed for photosynthesis

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Results for light experiment

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  • positive result for starch = carried out photosynthesis
  • no colour changed in covered part of leaf = no starch = no photosynthesis
  • light = essential to photosynthesis
29
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What is the control for the light experiment?

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The covered part of the leaf

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Aim of the chlorophyll experiment

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To discover of chlorophyll is needed for photosynthesis

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Results for chlorophyll experiment

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  • When variegated leaf was tested for starch;
  • green =black
  • white = orange (colour of iodine)
32
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What do the results for the chlorophyll experiment prove?

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Chlorophyll is essential for the process of photosynthesis

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Why is chlorophyll essential for the process of photosynthesis?

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Absorbs light = makes energy available for photosynthesis

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What is the control for the chlorophyll experiment?

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White part of leaf

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Variegated

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• Botany (of a plant or foliage) having or consisting of leaves that are edged or patterned in a second colour, especially white as well as green: the variegated form of philadelphus | variegated foliage.

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Where does the process of photosynthesis take place in most plants?

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In the leaves

37
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What are leaves adapted for to help with photosynthesis

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  • Light absorption
  • Gas exchange
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Way leaves are arranged

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Ensures each leaf can absorb as much light as possible

39
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Cell wall function

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  • acts as physical defence
  • transparent allowing light through
40
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Why is the cell wall transparent

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To allow light through

41
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Palisade mesophyll

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Tightly packed with many chloroplasts to increase photosynthetic

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Spongy mesophyll

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Tightly packed with many chloroplasts to increase photosynthesis

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Stomata

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Allows gases to diffuse in and out of leaf

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Waxy cuticle

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  • Physical defence
  • transparent
  • allows light through
  • barrier to disease causing microbes
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Xylem

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Carries water

46
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Phloem

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Carries sugar

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Air spaces purpose

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Circulation

48
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Large surface area leaf adaptation, maximum light absorption

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Maximises area for light to be absorbed

49
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Finley leave adaptation, maximum light absorption

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Short distance allows cells to receive light

50
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Thin, transparent cuticle adaptation, maximum light absorption

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  • Reduces water loss by evaporation
  • doesn’t stop light entering leaf 
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Lots of chloroplasts leaf adaptation, maximum light absorption

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Pigment chlorophyll, absorbs light

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Tightly packed, palisade mesophyll

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Ensures many cells rich and chloroplasts are packed together near upper surface

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Leaf adaptation maximum gas exchange stomata

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  • Allow CO2 and O2 to enter and leave leaf
  • pores found on lower leaf surface
  • each one surrounded by guard cells
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Guard cell function

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Regulate stomatas opening and closing

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Leaf adaptation, maximum gas exchange, intracellular air spaces

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  • Allow O2 leave and CO2 enter photosynthesising cells in palisade layer
  • allows gases to circulate around photosynthesising cells
56
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Factors affecting photosynthesis

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  • Levels of light and CO2
  • Water
  • Temperature
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What is the rate of photosynthesis occur in depend on?

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Availability of raw materials and energy needed for process 

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Temperature photosynthesis

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Affects rate of all reactions influence rate at which photosynthesis occurs

59
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Limiting factors of photosynthesis

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Raw materials in short supply

60
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How does photosynthesis take place at its maximum rate

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All environmental factors must be present at optimum levels

61
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Limits photosynthesis

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One or more factors in short supply

62
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Effects of light intensity on photosynthesis

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light intensity increase = photosynthesis increase

63
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Limiting factor

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Environmental factor limits rate of photosynthesis due to factor being present in too small an amount

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