Photosynthesis

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Photosynthesis
With special hosts You !!! (and your friendly
teacher)
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The Board
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Wild Card 100

• Place where Photosystems I and II are located
• Answer- What is, the membrane of the Thylakoid ?
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Wild Card 200

• Splitting of H2O molecules is this type of
  reaction (Reduction or Oxidation Reaction)
• Answer What is, Oxidation (e- are taken and H is
  taken like in all oxidations)
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Wild Card 300

• Simple sugars made during photosynthesis may
  later be changed into this type of complex
  structural carbohydrate of plant cell walls.
• Answer- What is, cellulose ?
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Wild Card 400

• The name of these structures, important in
  photosynthesis, means grain in latin.
• Answer- What is, granum ?
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Wild Card 500

• Shorter wavelength light energy has (more/less)
  Energy than longer wavelength light energy.
• Answer- What is, MORE ?
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Light R. or Calvin C. 100

• Carbon dioxide is fixed
• Answer- Where is, Calvin Cycle ??
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Light R. or Calvin C. 200

• RuBP is used and regenerated.
• Answer- What is, Calvin Cycle ?
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Light R. or Calvin C. 300

• Chlorophyll and other pigments are directly
  involved.
• Answer- What is, Light Reactions ?
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Light R. or Calvin C. 400

• Water molecules are split into various
  components.
• Answer- What is, Light Reactions ?
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Light R. or Calvin C. 500

• An electron-carrying systems is involved.
• Answer- What is, Light Reactions ?
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Enzymes and Products 100

• The product of the reaction catalyzed by the
  enzyme Rubisco.
• Answer- Who is, PGA a 3-Carbon molecule?
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Enzymes and Products 200

• NADPH, a product of Light Reactions is formed in
  the reduction of this molecule.
• Answer- What is Nicotine adenine dinucleotide
  phosphate (NADPH) ?
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Enzymes and Products 300

• High Energy 3-phosphate molecule formed during
  Light Reactions.
• Answer- What is, ATP (adenosine Triphosphate) ?
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Enzymes and Products 500

• During these reactions, some bacteria split
  molecules of Hydrogen Sulfide as source of e- and
  H (Light reactions or Calvin Cycle)
• Answer- What is, Light Reactions (just as when
  plants split water) ?
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Enzymes and Products 400

• Calvin cycle cannot operate in the dark because
  these products of Light Reactions are not
  available, and because this gas is needed.
• Answer- What are, ATP and NADPH from Light
  Reactions, and CO2 gas from the air ?
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Photosynthesis 100

• Photosynthesis provides these important building
  block materials needed by plants and all other
  organisms.
• Answer- What are, Carbon Skeletons?
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Photosynthesis 200

•  The structural/molecular difference between
  Chlorophyll a and b.
• Answer- What is, a CH3 (carboxyl) group in Chl a,
  versus a CHO group in Chl b ?
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Photosynthesis 400

• Reason for leaves to turn from green to yellow
  and red in the fall at northern latitudes.
• Answer- What is, change in relative
  abundance/activity of chlorophyll (green) to
  Carotenoids (yellow) and xanthophylls (red) ?
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Photosynthesis 500

• Once called the dark reactions, albeit
  incorrectly.
• Answer- What is, the Calvin Cycle ?
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Photosynthesis 300

• Place where ATP is formed from ADP P during the
  Light reactions.
• Answer- What is, the membrane of Thylakoids,
  where the entire set of Light Reactions takes
  place ?
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Mode of E acquisition 300

• Specific term used to describe organisms who
  perform photosynthesis as a source of of Energy
  and food.
• Answer- What are, Photoautotrophs ?
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Mode of E acquisition 300

• Fungi and molds belong in this specific category.
• Answer- What is, Chemoheterotrophs?
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Mode of E acquisition 500

• The only organisms that have a choice as to how
  to obtain their Energy/food (they are bacteria
  and some algae)
• Answer- What are, Photoheterotrophs ?
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Mode of E acquisition 200

• The mode of E acquisition that best describes a
  dinosaur, a tiger, and a kingfisher, but also a
  slime mold and both you and I.
• Answer- What is, Chemoheterotrophs ?
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Mode of E acquisition 100

• Specific mode of energy acquisition of bacteria
  in hydrothermal vents, capable of obtaining
  energy from inorganic sources.
• Answer- What is, chemoautotrophs ?
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Wild Card 300

• Mode of E acquisition of symbiotic bacteria
  associated with corals in coral reefs ?
• Answer- What is, Photoautotrophs?
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