Photosynthesis

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Photosynthesis
JEOPARDY
With special hosts You !!! (and your friendly
teacher)
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The Board
Mode of E acquisition Photosynthesis Enzymes Products Light R. or Calvin C. Wild Card
100 100 100 100 100
200 200 200 200 200
300 300 300 300 300
400 400 400 400 400
500 500 500 500 500
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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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