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| Creates it's own food using light |
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| Can create it's own food using chemicals in the environment |
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| Has to consume other autotrophs for energy |
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| interior tissue of the leaf - mesophyll cells contain chloroplasts |
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| Microscopic pores that let CO2 in and O2 out |
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| Located in mesophyll cells (30-40 of them) - this is where all photosynthesis takes place |
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| Interior fluid of the chloroplasts |
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| Connected sacs full of chlorophyll |
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| Stacked column of thylakoids |
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| Green pigment located in the chloroplasts |
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| Which reactant molecules do the carbon and oxygen atoms in the prodeucts come from |
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CO2 > Glucose and H2O
H2O > O2 |
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| RedOx reactions in photosynthsis |
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| In photosynthesis, CO2 is reduced and H2O is oxidized |
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| Two Stages of Photosynthesis and their location in the cell |
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| Light reactions (in the thylakoids) and the Calvin cycle (in the stroma) |
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| Splits water and passes electron to ETC |
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| Takes electron from ETC and uses light reactions to pass it to the primary electron acceptor and create NADPH |
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Carbon fixation
Reduction
Regeneration of RuBP |
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| Discrete particles of light |
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| Distance between crests of a wave |
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| Absorbance, reflectance and transmittance |
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Absorbance:
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| Absorption vs Action Spectrum |
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Absorption spectrum: wavelengths at which a pigment absorbs the most light
Action Spectrum: relative effectiveness of a given wavelength in driving a process |
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| What happens when an isolated solution of chlorophyll a is excited by light. |
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| Substances that absorb visible light |
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| Protein complex surrounded by light-harvesting complexes |
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| Accepts excited electrons and is reduced as a result |
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| Passes excited electron down to reaction center of PS1 |
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| Diagram light > ATP and NADPH production |
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| Linear vs. Cyclic electron flow |
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| 5 intermediates of the Calvin Cycle |
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| 3PGA; 1,3 BPGA; GA 3P; G3P; RuBP |
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| Fix carbon in separate cell type (isolated from Calvin Cycle); requires PEP carboxylase; fixes into 4C compounds |
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| Open stomata at night to fix carbon into organic acids; close during the day and CO2 is released for use in the Calvin Cycle |
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