www.biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio104/photosyn.htm
1. What is photosynthesis?
2. What is the chemical reaction for photosynthesis?
A) What are the reactants in this reaction?
B) What are the products in this reaction?
3. What are the light reactions and where do they take place?
4. In what type of molecule is the energy from the light reaction stored?
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/photosyn1.htm
5. Draw a picture of an ATP molecule.
Section 2: Light Reaction
www.estrellamountain.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/BioBookPS.html
OR
www.estrellamountain.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/BioBookglossC.html
1. What is a chloroplast?
2. Click on thylakoid. What is a thylakoid?
3. What is this arrangment called? What is a stroma? (Click on stroma and grana for more info.)
Scroll up to the previous section entitled Chlorophyll and Accessory Pigments and answer the following questions...
4. What is a pigment?
5. Explain why chlorophyll is green.
6. Scroll down to the paragraph below the picture with "wavelength in nm" above it. Click on chlorophyll a and explain the difference between the three different chlorophylls.
7. Scroll down to light reactions. What are the products of the light reactions?
Section 3: Calvin Cycle (Light-Independent Reaction)
http://faculty.nl.edu/jste/calvin_cycle.htm
Play the animation and read the summaries to answer the following:
1. What molecules are providing ENERGY for the production of G3P (a simple sugar)?
2. How many carbons are recycled in the Calvin Cycle?
3. How many molecules of ATP does it take to make one molecule of glucose?
4. How many "turns" of the Calvin Cycle does it take to make one molecule of glucose?
www.estrellamountain.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/BioBookPS.html
5. What products of the light reactions are used in the light-independent stage of photosynthesis?
6. What are the products of the light-independent reaction?