Overview of Photosynthesis
The process by which plants convert light energy into chemical energy.
What is photosynthesis?
These reactions convert solar energy to chemical energy.
What are the light reactions?
The Calvin cycle is also known as this.
What is the dark reaction or light-independent reaction?
The primary pigment that absorbs light for photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll a?
A shortage of this could stop photosynthesis completely.
What is water?
The organelle where photosynthesis takes place in plants.
What is the chloroplast?
The light reactions take place in this part of the chloroplast.
What is the thylakoid membrane?
The first molecule that CO2 is fixed into during the Calvin cycle.
What is a 3-carbon molecule?
Pigment absorbs these wavelengths and reflects green.
What are red, blue and violet?
Factors that affect photosynthesis.
What temperature, light intensity, and water?
The gas taken in by plants during photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
The molecule that acts as the final electron acceptor in the light reactions.
What is NADP+?
The protein that allows H+ ions to pass through the thylakoid membrane.
What is ATP Synthase?
This pigment is visible in the late fall.
What is carotene?
Plants that minimize water loss and still allow photosynthesis.
What C4 and CAM plants?
The main pigment involved in photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
The process by which ATP is formed using the energy of sunlight.
What is photophosphorylation?
NADP+ picks up ions to become this.
What is NADPH?
The part of the chloroplast that contains chlorophyll.
What is the thylakoid?
An example of a C4 plant.
What is maize (corn)?
The sugar molecule produced during photosynthesis.
What is glucose?
The products of the light reactions that are used in the Calvin cycle.
What are ATP and NADPH?
The number of CO2 molecules needed to produce one molecule of glucose in the Calvin cycle.
What is 6?
A stack of thylakoids.
What are granum?
An example of a CAM plant.
What is a cactus?