Photosynthesis Flashcards

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What is photosynthesis?

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The process by which most producers use sunlight to synthesize food from carbon dioxide and water.

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What type of organisms do photosynthesis?

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Plants, some bacteria and algae.

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What are the Main parts of the chloropast

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Grana thylakoid and stroma

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What is chlorophyll?

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Pigment that absorbs light energy

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How do gases enter an exit the leaves of plants

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Through the stomata of the plant

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What is the chemical equation for photosynthesis?

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Light energy + 6CO2 + 6H2O ~ C6 h12 O6 + 6O2

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What are the products of photosynthesis?

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Glucose and oxygen

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What are the reactions of photosynthesis?

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Water and carbon dioxide.

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9
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Where do light dependent reactions take place?

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Thylakoids

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Where do light independent reactions take place?

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Storma

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Light independent reaction is also known as

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The calvin cycle

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What is produced in the light Reactions that go to the kelvin cycle

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Oxygen Atp and nadph

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What happens in the calvin cycle

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Carbon dioxide an energy from light Dependent reaction Are used to make sugar

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Why is photosynthesis important

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It provides oxygen to an ecosystem which is essential to humans

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