Photosynthesis 1
This reactant of photosynthesis enters the leaves and is captured by pigments in the chloroplasts.
What is sunlight?
The most common photosynthetic pigment
What is chlorophyll
Organelles that specialize in converting light energy into chemical energy that the plant can use.
What are chloroplasts?
The area of the chloroplasts where the Calvin Cycle of photosynthesis occurs.
What is the stroma?
This usually why the stomata close
What is hot dry temps?
This reactant of photosynthesis enters the plant from the air through pores in the leaves.
What is carbon dioxide?
This product of photosynthesis is considered a waste because it doesn't contribute to the production of glucose or the growth of the plant.
What is oxygen?
The structures in the chloroplasts that contains the plant pigments.
What is the thylakoid membrane?
This product of photosynthesis is a simple sugar and provides the plant cells with chemical energy.
What is glucose?
Bonus: What is the chemical formula of glucose?
This is the most common type of plant in terms of photosynthesis strategy. These plants are most successful in places that have moderate temperatures and plenty of moisture.
C3 Plants
Name 2 organisms that do photosynthesis
Plants, algae, cyanobacteria
The reactant of photosynthesis that contributes the electron at the start of the Light reactions (it has to be split).
What is water?
This process in photosynthesis does not require the presence of light.
What is the The Calvin Cycle?
G3P can be used to make what biomolecules?
Lipids, carbs, proteins nucleic acids
These plants do the Calving cycle of photosynthesis in different cells (bundle sheath cells) to prevent dry, hot climate from interfering with photosynthesis.
What are C4 plants?
This is also know as the ETC
What is the electron transport chain?
The colors of visible light used the LEAST by photosynthesizers.
What is green and/or yellow?
This is the pore or opening on a leaf that allows gases to move into or out of the leaf.
Stoma or stomata
The 3 products of the Calvin Cycle
What are sugars, NADP+, and ADP?
These plants fix CO2 at night and use it during the day
What are CAM plants?
The molecule that leaves the Calvin Cycle at the end of the reduction phase.
What is G3P?
The three products of the light dependent reactions.
What are oxygen, ATP, and NADPH?
These is also known a cluster of pigments & enzymes that looks like lily pads.
What is a Photosystem?
This molecule is recycled so the Calvin cycle can keep going.
What is RuBp?
The location in a leaf where photosynthesis happens the most.
Palisade mesophyll
The name for 5 carbon molecule that bonds to CO2 in the first steps of the Calvin cycle
What is RuBp?
This is where electrons after being electrically excited in the Photosystems.
What is the electron transport chain?
The reactant of photosynthesis that reacts during photosynthesis to produce oxygen that is released to the atmosphere.
What is water?
ATP and NADPH are used for what purpose in the Calvin cycle?
To fix carbon and build a carbohydrate molecule (G3P/glucose).
This pigment is an accessory pigment and can be orange, red, or yellow
What is carotenoids?