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Equation for photosynthesis
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6CO2 + 6H2O+ light ==> C6H12O6 + 6O2
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What happens in photosynthesis
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Energy from sunlight is stored in carbohydrates
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Equation for aerobic respiration
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C6H12O6 + 6O2 + 36ADP + 36P ==> 6CO2 + 6H2O + 36 ATP
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What happens in aerobic respiration?
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Energy from carbohydrates is temporarily stored in ATP
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How is energy transformed during photosynthesis?
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Light energy (kinetic) to glucose (potential chemical)
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What is the atmospheric byproduct Produced during photosynthesis?
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Oxygen
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What is the atmospheric byproduct produced during aerobic respiration
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Carbon dioxide
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How is energy transformed during aerobic respiration
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Glucose (potential chemical) to ATP (potential chemical)
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If a chloroplast can make ATP directly from solar energy, why introduce glucose?
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For when there's no sun
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What are the four short-term energy storage molecules used During photosynthesis and respiration?
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ATP, NADPH, NADH, FADH2
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ATP synthase most directly uses___ as a source of energy to make ATP
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diffusion of hydrogen ions
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The oxygen released into the air as a product of photosynthesis, comes from...
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Water
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The structure that absorbs sunlight in order to energize electrons:
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The photosystems
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The structure whose function is to bond hydrogen ions to NADP+ using two high-energy electrons
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NADP reductase
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What structure pumps hydrogen ions into Thylakoid?
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Electron transport chain
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Where does the oxygen gas produced during photosynthesis, come from
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Water
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A packet of light energy is called a...
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Photon
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The electrons lost from the reaction center of photosystem 2 are replaced by electrons from...
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H2O
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The purpose of photosynthesis is to:
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Make glucose
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Where is chlorophyll found in a plant cell?
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Thylakoid membranes
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The light reactions occur in the______ while the Calvin cycle occurs in the________
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thylakoid... stroma
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When a chlorophyll molecule absorbs a photon of light...
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Some of its electrons are excited
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At the very beginning of the light dependent actions electrons are needed. Where do they come from?
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H2O splitting
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RuBP
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Ribulose 1,5 bisphosphate
five carbon |
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PGA
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Phosphoglyceric acid
three carbon molecule that is formed through carbon fixation |
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Rubisco
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ribulose 1,5 bisphosphate carboxylase
enzyme that sticks CO2 to RuBP |
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G3P
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Glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate
is simple sugar that can be used to make a wide variety of other organic compounds |
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Carbon fixation
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Rubisco bonds CO2 to RuBP
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