1. What is the chemical equation for photosynthesis?
2. What are the end products of the light reactions?
3. Where do the reactions of photosynthesis take place?
4. What is the difference between reflection and absorption? Are the colors that we see reflected or absorbed?
5. What are CAM and C4 plants? Why do some plants have these alternative pathways? Why don't all plants have these pathways?
6. What occurs in the Calvin cycle?
7. What happens to the electrons that are released when water is split in the light reactions of photosynthesis?
8. What is the path that an electron takes during the light reactions of photosynthesis?
9. What is the role of rubisco?
10. What happens in the light reactions of photosynthesis? How are ATP and NADPH produced?
Cell Respiration Questions
11. What are the steps of cellular respiration? Why does energy release occur in steps?
12. What are mitochondria, what happens there? What are the different regions in a mitochondrion? Why is there an inner and an outer membrane?
13. What is the role of NADH and FADH2 in cellular respiration?
14. What is a redox reaction? What happens to something that is reduced?
15. Describe glycolysis: What molecule is consumed? What molecules are produced?
16. What is the purpose of fermentation? What is produced through fermentation that is consumed in glycolysis?
17. What molecule enters the Krebs cycle? What are the products?
18. Describe how ATP is produced in mitochondria from the products of the previous steps of cellular respiration (NADH and FADH2). (via the electron transport chain)