Light-dependent Reactions | Light-independent Reactions | Pathways | Labs - Factors affecting photosynthesis | Miscellaneous |
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What is water?
The oxygen produced in photosynthesis comes from this molecule.
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What is carbon dioxide?
[CO2]
This molecule is the source of carbon for building carbohydrates (sugars).
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What is the C3 pathway?
This is the most dominant pathway for fixing carbon dioxide.
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What is blue and red?
These colors are the most absorbed by chlorophyll.
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What is photosystem II?
This is the first photosystem used in photosynthesis.
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What is ATP and NADPH?
These are the products of light reactions.
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What is the Calvin cycle?
[Citric-Acid Cycle]
This cyclic process only occurs in the stroma.
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What is the C4 pathway?
This photosynthetic pathway is used by some plants to survive in a hot-dry climate.
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What is green?
This is the color of bromothymol solution after being placed in the dark with elodea.
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What is water?
While light is used in both photosystems, this molecule is only used in II.
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What is to produce ATP?
This is the whole point of photosystem II?
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What is Fixation, Reduction, and Regeneration?
These are the three steps of the Calvin cycle.
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What is the C4 pathway?
This photosynthetic pathway separates carbon fixation and the rest of Calvin cycle by location (i.e., Mesophyll cells vs. Bundle sheath cells).
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What is light intensity?
Increasing this will increase photosynthesis, but only up until a certain point and then it will stabilize.
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What is NADPH?
The purpose of this molecule is to carry electrons for use in the Calvin cycle.
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What is photophosphorylation?
This term means ATP production by sunlight.
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What is the production of sugars (carbs)?
This is the product of the Calvin cycle.
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What is the CAM pathway?
This photosynthetic pathway separates carbon fixation and the rest of the Calvin cycle by time of day.
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What is CO2?
If there is none of this gas present, photosynthesis cannot make sugars.
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What is 5?
For every glucose molecule this is how many G3P molecules are used to regenerate RuBP.
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What is chlorophyll?
[pigments]
This supplies the electrons entering the electron transport chains.
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What is rubisco?
This enzyme fixes CO2 to a 5-carbon organic compound called RuBP.
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What is cyclic electron flow?
This pathway of electron flow only produces ATP; making up for the ATP debt created in the Calvin Cycle.
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What is temperature?
Only under optimal conditions does this increase photosynthesis. Too much, or too little, and photosynthesis will be reduced.
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What is stomata?
These are the openings by which CO2 is transferred into a plant cell?
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