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Academic Photosynthesis Jeopardy
Energy
100- An organism that uses the sun’s energy to make its own food is called a
Autotroph
200- This type of organism cannot create its own food and gets its energy from
consuming other organisms.
Heterotroph
300- What is the energy currency of the cell?
ATP
400- What is the name of the electron carrier that is charged during the light reactions of
photosynthesis?
NADPH
500- Where is the energy stored in an ATP molecule?
In the bonds between the phosphate groups
Absorbing Energy
100- What is the name of a chemical that absorbs or reflects light?
Pigment
200- What is the main pigment in plants?
Cholorophyll a
300- Where in a plant cell is the pigment found?
Chloroplast
400- What color in the electromagnetic spectrum is absorbed the most by chlorophyll?
Violet
500- What is an example of an accessory pigment found in plant cells?
Chlorophyll b, carotenoids or anthocycanins
Light Reactions
100- Where in the chloroplast do the light reactions take place?
Grana
200- What are 2 of the raw materials that are needed for the light reactions to take place?
Chlorophyll, light and water
300- What is the byproduct that is produced in the light reactions that is so important to
us?
O2
400- What are the 2 electron carriers that are converted into usable energy for the dark
reactions?
ADP & NADP+
500- What are the 3 products of the light reactions?
O2, ATP, NADPH
Dark Reactions
100- What is another name for the dark reaction?
Calvin cycle, Light Independent Reactions
200- Where in the chloroplast does the Calvin Cycle take place
Stroma
300- What 2 products formed during the light reactions are needed in the dark reactions?
NADPH and ATP
400- What does the plant do with the excess glucose that it produces?
Stores it in the form of starch and cellulose
500- What are the products that form during the dark reactions?
Glucose, ADP, NADP+
Grab Bag
100- What are the flat membranes where photosynthesis takes place in chloroplasts
called?
Thylakoids
200- What are 2 factors that affect photosynthesis?
Temp, CO2 concentration, light intensity or shortage of water
300- The part of the chloroplast where the Calvin cycle takes place and that surrounds the
grana is called the
Stroma
400- Jan Van Helmont was a scientist that theorized plants grew by…
Absorbing water
500- This scientist discovered plants release oxygen by putting a mouse in a jar with a
live plant.
Joseph Priestly