Calvin Cycle
Q: What are the final products of the Calvin Cycle?
A: RuBP and Glucose
Q: What powers Photosystem 2 and excites the electrons?
A: light energy or photon
Q: What does ETC stand for?
A: Electron Transport Chain
Q: What are the thylakoids surrounded by?
A: the stroma
Q: What are the products of photosynthesis?
A: Glucose and Oxygen
Q: What is put into the Calvin Cycle?
A: 3 CO2
Q: What process replaces the lost electrons in photosystem 2?
A: photolysis of water
Q: When the electrons get off of the ETC and enter photosystem 1, does it have high or low potential energy?
A: low
Q: Where does the Calvin Cycle take place?
A: stroma
Q: What is the name of fluid filled space surrounding the thylakoids and grana?
A: Stroma
Q: What powers the Calvin Cycle?
A:the ATP and NADPH from the light dependent phase
Q: What bounces off the chlorophyll a to get to the high-energy electron acceptor?
A: Photon
Q: What are the 3 final products of the light reactions?
A: oxygen, NADPH, and ATP
Q: Where does light-dependent photosynthesis take place?
A: Thylakoid membrane
Q: Which photosystem comes first in photosynthesis?
A: Photosystem II
Q: Which enzyme catalyzes CO2 + RuBP to make 3-PGA?
A: Rubisco
Q: What powers the hydrogen ion pumps?
A: hydrogen ion concentration gradient
Q: What happens to photosystem 1 when the electron gets off of the ETC?
A: it becomes oxidized
Q: Where is the electron transport chain?
A: Between the two photosystems
Q: Is the hydrogen ion/proton pump in photosynthesis an active or passive process?
A: active
Q: CO2 + RuBP = _____________
A: 3-PGA
Q: Which colors does chlorophyll a absorb the most?
A: Violet and red
Q: What is the name of the enzyme that generates ATP from the movement of H+ due to a concentration gradient?
A: ATP Synthase
Q: Where do the hydrogen ions go?
A: thylakoid space
Q: What is the equation for photosynthesis?
A: 6H20 + 6CO2 +sunlight → 6O2 + C6H12O6