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What is photosynthesis?
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What is photosynthesis? It is the process in which autotrophs make their own food using the energy in light and CO2 and H20.
What is the photosynthesis equation? 6 CO2+6 H2O--sunlight--> C6H12O6+6 O2 (Carbon dioxide+water--light--> carbohydrate+oxygen)
What was Van Helmont's experiment? Van Helmont's experiment studied what plants used to increase its mass. Though his experiments of a plant as a seedling to a larger size, he concluded that water was a major part of the plant's growing mass.
What was Joseph Priestly's experiment? Joseph Priestly's experiment consisted of placing a candle under a jar until it went out. He then placed a sprig of mint under the jar with the candle and the candle was able to burn longer. He concluded that the plant used and made gases.
What is an autotroph? It is an organism that is able to use a source of energy to produce its food from inorganic raw materials. (Ex. Plants)
What is a heterotroph? It is an organism that cannot produce its own food but obtains energy from the food it eats. (Ex. Animals)
What are pigments? They are colored substances that absorbs or reflects certain wavelengths of light.
What is chlorophyll II? It is the most dominant color of chlorophyll in plant cells. Chlorophyll is the principal pigment of green plants and chlorophyll II is the one that we see with the naked eye.
What is AMP? ADP? ATP? AMP is adenosine monophosphate. It is made up of an adenosine molecule and a phosphate molecule. ADP is adenosine diphosphate. It has an added phosphate. ATP is adenosine triphosphate. It has another added phosphate.
What is NADP+? NADPH? NADP+ is an electron carrier inside of plant cells. It can store extra electrons in its energy levels. NADPH is NADP+ that has accepted a pair of high-energy electrons. The conversion is one way in which some of the energy of light can be chemically tra
What are the light reactions? They are the reactions of photosynthesis that require light.
What are the dark reactions? They are the reactions of photosynthesis that do not require light but use energy produced and stored during light reactions to make glucose.
What are things inside the chloroplast that are saclike and contain chlorophyll? They are photosynthetic membranes.
What is a cluster of pigment molecules within a photosynthetic membrane called? Photosystems
What is the process in which high-energy electrons are transferred along a series of electron-carrier molecules in a membrane? Electron transport
What is the name given to the cycle of dark reactions in photosynthesis called? Calvin cycle
What is the production of ATP by the conversion of glucose to pyruvic acid called? Glycolysis
What is the process that involves oxygen and breaks down food molecules to release energy called? Respiration
What is a process that requires oxygen classified as? Aerobic
What is the continuing series of nine reactions in cellular respiration that produces carbon dioxide, NADH, and FADH2 called? Krebs cycle
What is fermentation? It is the process that enables cells to carry out energy production in the absence of oxygen; breakdown of glucose and release of energy in which organic substances are the final electron acceptors.
What is a process that does not require oxygen classified as? Anaerobic
What is the anaerobic process of glucose breakdown that produces lactic acid? Lactic acid fermentation
What is fermentation that produces alcohol called? Alcoholic fermentation
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