Photosynthesis 1
The process that uses energy from the sun to make food from water and carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
A compound made from carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in a 1:2:1 ratio.
What is a carbohydrate?
Carbon dioxide is a primary input for these set of reactions in photosynthesis.
What is light-independent/Calvin Cycle?
Left side (before the arrow) in a chemical equation.
What is reactants?
Right side (after the arrow) in a chemical equation.
What is products?
The substance/molecule that absorbs light in photosystems, giving the chloroplast a green color.
What is chlorophyll?
Photosynthesis uses light energy, carbon dioxide, and ______ to produce oxygen and sugar.
What is water?
When the sun shines on a plant, the leaves can make food from carbon dioxide and ________.
What is water?
Producers that make their own food.
What is an autotroph?
Photosynthesis needs these three things to work.
What are sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water?
The tiny pores in the bottom of leaves that take in carbon dioxide from the air.
What are stomata?
Starches and sugars produced in photosynthesis are this type of macromolecule.
What are carbohydrates?
Light Dependent reactions in photosynthesis take place in this part of the chloroplast.
What are thylakoids?
What would happen to consumers (humans) if photosynthesis was impossible?
THEY WOULD ALL DIE.
The product that is made from photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
Give one organism (besides a plant) that can do photosynthesis.
Possible answers: some bacteria OR algae
Photosynthesis occurs in this cell organelle.
What is the chloroplast?
What do we call the proteins that carry high energy electrons between photosystems in the light dependent reactions?
What is the electron transport chain (ETC)?
A minivan (carrier) for high energy electrons produced in light dependent reactions.
What is NADPH?
In what part of the chloroplast does the light independent reaction take place?
What is the stroma?
Reactions where water gets split (separated into Hydrogen and Oxygen).
What are light dependent reactions?
This energy producing molecule is like a run-down battery.
What is ADP?
Plants usually store sugar as a _________.
What is starch or cellulose?
The chemical formula for glucose.
What is C6H12O6?
Reaction where glucose gets made.
What is the light independent reactions?