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

• The meaning of the term Chloro in an ancient
  language?
• Answer- What is green?
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Wild Card 200

• Photosynthesis converts a form of energy into
  another
• What is Light E to Chemical E?
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Wild Card 300

• This happens to the Oxygen atoms in water
  molecules
• Answer- What is they are released as gas ?
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Wild Card 400

• The colors of light that plants pigments can
  absorb
• Answer- What are blue/violet and orange/red?
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Wild Card 500

• The Reaction Centers in Photosystems I and II
  are this type of molecule
• Answer- What is a special type of Chlorophyll a?
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Overall 100

• The smallest structure where pigments are
  contained
• Answer- What are thylakoids?
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Overall 200

• Enzyme that participates in forming ATP from ADP
  P
• Answer- Who is ATP synthetase?
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Overall 300

• A single stack of pigment-containing sacs
• Answer- What is a granum?
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Overall 400

• Can only come into the plant thru the roots
• Answer- What is Water?
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Overall 500

• Original source of Carbon atoms for plant-made
  compounds
• Answer- What is Carbon dioxide ?
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Calvin Cycle 100

• 5-C sugar-phosphate that combines with CO2 to
  form a unstable 6-C molecule
• Answer- Who is RuBP?
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Calvin Cycle 200

• Overall products of Calvin Cycle
• Answer- 6 molecules of PGAL (5 to re-generate
  RuBP) and one extra that can be used for growth?
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Calcin Cycle 300

• Enzyme that mediates CO2 fixation
• Answer- What is Rubisco?
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Calvin Cycle 500

• Ways the plant utilizes the products of the
  Calvin Cycle
• Answer- What are a) Energy sources (sugars,
  starch, lipids, b) Carbon skeletons to make other
  molecules.
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Calvin Cycle 400

• The place where it takes place
• Answer- What is the stroma of the chloroplast?
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Light Reactions 100

• End products of Light
• Reactions
• Answer- What are ATP and NADPH?
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Light Reactions 200

•  Instead of water as a source of electrons, some
  bacteria use another molecule
• Answer- What is H2S, Hydrogen sulfide?
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Light Reactions 400

• Water gets split into 3 components
• Answer- What are H (protons), electrons, and O2
  (gas)?
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Light Reactions 500

• The short name of nicotinamide adenine
  dinucleotide phospate
• Answer- What is NADP ?
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Light Reactions 300

• The two clusters of light-absorbing pigments
  involved in electron movement
• Answer- What are Photosystem I and Photosystem II
  ?
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Struct. Molecules 300

• 2 types of the same molecule, differing on
  whether a CH3 or a CHO group is attached at the
  light-absorbing portion of the molecule.
• Answer- What are they, Chlorophyll a and b?
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Struct. Molecules 400

• The place where the Light reactions take place
  (specific)
• Answer- What are the membranes of thylakoids?
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Struct. Molecules 500

• The green structures where all of photosynthesis
  take place
• Answer- What are the chloroplasts ?
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Struct. Molecules 200

• Made of a bi-layer of phospholipid
• Answer- A membrane (cell, chloroplast, thylakoid,
  etc.) ?
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Struct. Molecules 100

• Electrons from water join molecules of NADP and
  form ..
• Answer- What is NADPH ?
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Wild Card 300

• Fuel for the Calvin Cycle
• Answer- What are NADPH and ATP?
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Just answer it 100

• Important molecule that enters the plant through
  stomata?

Answer- What is CO2?
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