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30 Cards in this Set
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What is the Photosynthesis equation? |
CO2 + H2O >> C6H12O6 + O2 |
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Makes their own food? |
Autotrophs |
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What is the major site of photosynthesis? |
Chloroplasts |
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What makes plants green colored? |
Chlorophyll |
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What are the packing peanuts? |
Mesophyll |
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Where is mesophyll located? |
Interior of the leaf |
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What are the tiny pores in the leaf? |
Stomata |
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What enters stomata? |
Carbon dioxide |
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What exits the stomata? |
Oxygen |
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What moves the water from the roots? |
Veins in the leaf |
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What is the dense fluid within the chloroplast? |
Stroma |
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A system of interconnected membrane sacs.. |
Thylakoids |
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What are Granas? |
Stacks of thylakoids |
Pancakes |
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Photosynthesis is what type of process? |
Redox |
Oxidation-reduction |
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How are H2O molecules split apart? |
Oxidation |
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What happens in oxidation? |
water molecules lose electrons & hydrogen ions |
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In photosynthesis how do electrons gain energy? |
By being boosted up the energy hill |
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What provides the energy boost needed for electrons? |
Chlorophyll captures light energy |
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What is light energy converted into? |
Chemical energy |
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Where is the chemical energy stored? |
In the chemical bonds of sugar molecules |
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How many stages are in photosynthesis? |
2 - dark & light |
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What is the main difference between the dark and light stages? |
Dark is light independent. Light is light dependent. |
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What do H+ ions reduce NADP+ to? |
NADPH |
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Is NADPH permanently stored? |
No- temporarily |
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Where is NADPH sent to? |
The Calvin Cycle (dark reaction) |
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What do the light reactions generate? |
ATP |
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Where does the Calvin cycle occur? |
In the stroma of the chloroplast |
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What kind of series is photosynthesis? |
Cyclic- repetition |
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During the Calvin cycle, what happens with CO2? |
It is incorporated into organic compounds |
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What is the Calvin cycle? |
The dark (light independent reaction) |
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