Unit 2 (Week 7 Photosynthesis) Flashcards
What is the process whereby light energy is captured by plant, algal, or photosynthetic bacterial cells and is used to synthesize organic molecules from CO2 and H2O (or H2S)?
Photosynthesis
What is the first of two stages in the process of photosynthesis?
Light reactions.
During the light reactions, photosystem II and photosystem I absorb light energy and produce ATP, NADPH, and O2.
What is the second stage in the process of photosynthesis?
Calvin cycle.
During this cycle, ATP is used as a source of energy and NADPH is used as a source of high-energy electrons, driving the synthesis of carbohydrates using CO2.
What is a major contributor to the mass and size of plants?
CO2
What do some photosynthetic bacteria use instead of water for photosynthesis?
Hydrogen sulfide (H2S). They release sulfur instead of oxygen.
T/F The free-energy change required for the production of 1 mole of glucose from carbon dioxide is endergonic and requires sunlight to drive the synthesis of glucose by making the beginning process exergonic.
True.
T/F The free-energy change required for the production of 1 mole of glucose from carbon dioxide is endergonic and requires sunlight to drive the synthesis of glucose by making the beginning process exergonic.
True.
What is the regions on the surface of the Earth and in the atmosphere where living organisms exist?
Biosphere
What are living organisms categorized as in respect to organic molecules and sustainment?
Heterotrophs and Autotrophs
What is an organism that cannot produce their own organic molecules by using energy from inorganic sources or light; they must obtain one or more organic compounds from their environment?
Heterotroph
What is an organism that has metabolic pathways that use energy from either inorganic molecules or light to make organic molecules?
Autotroph
What is a photoautotroph?
An organism that uses the energy from light to make organic molecules from inorganic sources. This includes plants, algae, and some bacterial species such as cyanobacteria.
What does life in the biosphere rely on?
The key energy cycle that involves the interplay between organic molecules (glucose) and inorganic molecules, namely, O2, CO2, and H2O.
Photosynthesis is a process in which light, CO2, and H2O are used to produce O2 and organic molecules (glucose). The organic molecules are broken down to CO2 and H2O via cellular respiration to supply energy in the form of ATP; O2 is reduced to H2O.
What makes a large portion of the Earth’s organic molecules via photosynthesis by reusing CO2 produced by heterotrophs through cellular respiration to make O2?
Photoautotrophs.
What are semiautonomous organelle found in plant and algal cells that carries out photosynthesis?
Chloroplasts
What is a photosynthetic green pigment found in the chloroplasts of plants, algae, and some bacteria?
Chlorophyll
Where does MOST of the photosynthesis in plants occur?
The leaves.
What is the mesophyll? What is contained within this area located between the two epidermal cell layers of the leaf?
The internal tissue of a plant leaf; the site of photosynthesis. The mesophyll cells.
Where is water taken up by the plant to allow photosynthesis to occur?
The roots.
Where does carbon dioxide enter the plant and where oxygen leaves? Where are these pores located?
Pores in the plant called stomata (singular, stoma or stomate; from the Greek, meaning mouth)
These pores on located within the epidermal layers of the leaf and act as a “antiport” for oxygen and carbon dioxide.
[Review] What parts does the chloroplast consist of within the Mesophyll cell? (8)
Outer membrane, intermembrane space, inner membrane, thylakoid and its membrane, thylakoid lumen, granum, and stroma.
What is a membrane within the chloroplast that forms many flattened, fluid-filled tubules that enclose a single, convoluted compartment. It contains chlorophyll and is the site where the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis occurs?
Thylakoid membrane
What is a flattened, fluid-filled tubule found in cyanobacterial cells and the chloroplasts of photosynthetic protists and plants; the location of the light reactions of photosynthesis?
Thylakoid
What is the fluid-filled compartment within a thylakoid?
Thylakoid lumen