Photosynthesis

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• Why does photosynthesis need light?
• Why is photosynthesis referred to as a biochemical pathway?
• Why is photosynthesis important for plants?
• How does photosynthesis store energy?
• How do photosystems 1 and 2 differ?
• How does color affect light absorption?
• How are pigments related to photosystems?
• How do chloroplasts and mitochondria work together?
• What are chloroplasts?
• What is the visible spectrum?
• How does the visible light spectrum relate to photosynthesis?
• Can light dependent reactions occur in the dark?
• Why are the light independent reactions considered the synthesis part of photosynthesis?
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• What are the products of photosynthesis?
• How is oxygen related to photosynthesis?
• What occurs during the light-independent reactions of photosynthesis?
• Why is photosynthesis important to all life on earth?
• What is the process of photosynthesis?
• How are photosynthesis and cellular respiration similar?
• What is the difference between respiration and photosynthesis?
• What factors affect the process of photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
• What is the function of water in photosynthesis?
• What is the balanced equation for the photosynthesis reaction in which gaseous carbon dioxide and liquid water react in the presence of chlorophyll to produce aqueous glucose #C_6H_12O_6# and oxygen gas?
• In what parts of the chloroplast does photosynthesis take place?
• What are the steps in the Calvin cycle?
• What happens to the sugar made in photosynthesis after photosynthesis occurs?
• What gas is released during photosynthesis?
• Is the green color of plants due to the chlorophyll reflecting green light?
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• What is the importance of water, oxygen, carbon dioxide during the photosynthesis process?
• In which organelle does the light reaction of photosynthesis take place?
• The summary formula for photosynthesis is #6CO_2 + 6H_2O → C_6H_12O_6 + 6O_2#. How many molecules of carbon dioxide would a plant have to use to produce three molecules of glucose?
• What is the equation for the Calvin cycle?
• What wavelengths of light drive photosynthesis?
• Chlorophyll absorbs light at what wavelengths?
• What visible light wavelengths (color) are reflected by chlorophyll?
• What molecule is released from stage one of photosynthesis, but does not move to stage two?
• How does light frequency affect the rate of photosynthesis?
• What happens to the 3-carbon compounds that do not leave the Calvin cycle to be made into organic compounds?
• What provides the carbon atoms that are incorporated into sugar molecules in the Calvin cycle?
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• How would you describe the process of photosynthesis?
• What is role of electron transport chain in photosynthesis?
• What are the steps of light-dependent reactions?
• What are light dependent and light independent reactions?
• Why is photosynthesis a light-dependent reaction?
• How does the light dependent reaction affect the calvin cycle?
• Why are the light-dependent and light-independent phases of photosynthesis dependent upon each other?
• What is the function of the light-dependent reactions?
• Where do the light-dependent reactions take place?
• What substance from the light-dependent reaction of photosynthesis is a source of energy for the Calvin Cycle?
• Will stopping the light-dependent phase of photosynthesis affect the light-independent phase?
• How would you explain how the light-independent reactions of photosynthesis rely on the light-dependent reactions?
• Where are the enzymes associated with the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis located?
• What role do the enzymes in photosynthesis play?
• What raw materials are used in light dependent reactions?
• Which reactions in photosynthesis require light?
• How is light energy converted into chemical energy during photosynthesis?
• How is water used during the light dependent reactions?
• In what part of the chloroplast does the light-dependent reaction take place?
• What is the difference between photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
• What raw materials is required for the process of photosynthesis and respiration?
• What is the relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
• Where does a plant get the carbon dioxide that it needs for the dark reaction of photosynthesis?
• Why do plants need a variety of pigments to carry out photosynthesis?
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• How do plants capture light energy for use in photosynthesis?
• What is [H+] in photosynthesis?
• What is the product of the electron transport chain of photosynthesis?
• Why is it called a light reaction?
• What is the chemical relationship between the light dependent and the light independent (carbon fixation) reactions of photosynthesis? In what part of the chloroplast does each occur?
• What are the steps of light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis?
• Which process occurs during the light-dependent reactions in photosynthesis?
• What is the role of water in the light-dependent reactions?
• How is oxygen produced during the light-dependent reaction used?
• How are the light-dependent and light-independent reactions of photosynthesis related?
• What substance and what form of energy are taken in from the environment by the light dependent reactions?
• What are the products of light-independent reactions of photosynthesis?
• In photosynthesis, what is an example of light independent reaction?
• What is the difference between light dependant and light independent photosynthesis? T
• How do solar panels compare to light dependent reactions of photosynthesis?
• What is the light dependent reaction of photosynthesis equation?
• What does the light dependent reaction of photosynthesis produce?
• What is light dependent reaction of photosynthesis?
• What is the light dependent reaction of photosynthesis? Where does it occur?
• Where do light dependent reactions of photosynthesis take place?
• Why is water split during the light dependent reactions of photosynthesis?
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• How are the light reactions of photosynthesis important to the production of glucose?
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• What is carbon fixation, and how does it relate to photosynthesis?
• What is required for both the light-dependent and light-independent reactions to proceed?
• How would you describe the process of light-independent reactions?
• What are the products of light-independent reactions?
• Why is the Calvin cycle referred fo as a dark reaction?
• Is animal photosynthesis possible?
• How does photosynthesis work?
• Where are the photosystems, or light-collecting units of photosynthesis, found?
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• If the number of photosynthetic organisms on the earth decreased drastically, what would happen?
• Which color of light does chlorophyll absorb more of than any other color?
• As light intensity increases, what happens to the rate of photosynthesis?
• What would happen if photosynthesis stopped happening on Earth?
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• How can the chemical equation for aerobic cellular respiration show the formation of ATP?
• What type of molecule serves as the inorganic carbon reservoir for photosynthesis?
• Where does Photo System I get the electrons from?
• What happens in the light-dependent reactions?
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• Approximately what percentage of solar energy falling on a plant is assimilated in photosynthesis?
• What is the first step of the Calvin-Benson cycle?
• What molecule is a reactant in the first step and a final product in the fourth step of the Calvin Benson cycle?
• What happens during photophosphorylation?
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• Which energy carrier directly supplies the Calvin cycle?
• How do the reactant molecules of photosynthesis reach the chloroplasts in leaves?
• What is a thylakoid?
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• What is the green pigment that allows photosynthesis to occur?
• Where does the light cycle take place and what are the reactants/products?
• What roles do photosynthesis and cellular respiration play in the recycling of carbon?
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• When would green plants carry out photosynthesis-only during at night, continuously, the day, only or never?
• How does stagnant water affect photosynthesis?
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• What cell structure is the site for the electron transport chain?
• Photosynthesis will work best in what temperature range?
• What are the products of photosynthesis other than glucose and oxygen ?
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• How does the leaf get carbon dioxide for photosynthesis?
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• What material do plants make during photosynthesis?
• How is oxygen generated in photosynthesis?
• How do organisms use carbohydrates that is produced by photosynthesis?
• In what ways are photosynthesis and cellular respiration not alike?
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• Which chemical cycle involves the process of photosynthesis?
• Why does photosynthesis require biological catalysts?
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• What is the role of the thylakoids in the process of photosynthesis?
• What is in the chloroplast?
• Where does the oxygen released by plants during photosynthesis comes from?
• Without the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis, the Calvin-Benson cycle would not be possible because it would lack what molecules?
• What is a waste product of photosynthesis?
• What is the role of chlorophylls in the biochemical pathways of photosynthesis?
• What two types of reactions occur in photosynthesis?
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• Is oxygen produced during light reactions of photosynthesis an excretory product of plants?
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• What does the light-independent reactions of photosynthesis need?
• What is the role of the Electron Transport Chain. What happens to the electrons and H*?
• With pictures and diagrams, can you explain the detailed, photosynthesis process?
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• Which organisms can perform photosynthesis?
• How does energy transformation happen in photosynthesis?
• Why is the Calvin-Benson cycle called reductive pentose phosphate cycle?
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• What are the importance of Photosynthesis ?
• How do I match these Solar Energy and Photosynthesis terms correctly?