Honors Biology – Chapters 8 and 9: Respiration and Photosynthesis
By the end of the chapter, students should be able to complete the numbered “Learning Objectives”.
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1. Demonstrate an ability to meet deadlines by turning in assignments on time.
2. Demonstrate an ability to use appropriate grammar and spelling and to make corrections as necessary.
Essential Question A. What is the function of cell respiration in cells and organisms?
3. Explain that the gradual combustion of carbon-containing compounds within cells, called cellular respiration,
provides the primary energy source of living organisms
4. Explain what occurs in glycolysis
a. What and how much is produced or used? Where/how does all this occur?
5. Explain what occurs in the Krebs cycle and electron transport chain
b. What and how much is produced or used? Where/how does all this occur?
6. Explain the role of mitochondria in cellular respiration
Essential Question B. What is the function of photosynthesis in cells and organisms?
7. Explain that photosynthesis is the process that plant cells use to combine the energy of sunlight with
molecules of carbon dioxide and water to produce energy-rich compounds that contain carbon (food) and
release oxygen.
8. Explain what occurs in the light-dependent reaction of photosynthesis
c. What and how much is produced or used? Where/how does all this occur?
9. Explain what occurs in the Calvin cycle
d. What and how much is produced or used? Where/how does all this occur?
10. Explain the role of chloroplasts in photosynthesis
11. Explain how plant cells use photosynthesis to produce their own food.
12. Explain the importance of photosynthesis for both plants and animals, including humans.
13. Explain how plants gain mass through the process of photosynthesis.
Essential Question C. How are cellular respiration and photosynthesis related?
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Explain how energy is converted from one form into others during cellular respiration and photosynthesis
Explain that carbon-containing compounds are the building blocks of life.
Compare and contrast the overall processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration
Explain HOW plants use BOTH photosynthesis and respiration
Explain ATP/ADP, NAD+/NADH, FAD/FADH2, NADP+/NADPH and the role they play in cells completing
cellular respiration and/or photosynthesis.
19. Write in symbols and in words the chemical equations for both respiration and photosynthesis at the cellular
level; be able to compare and contrast these questions (how are they similar/different?)
Essential Question D. What is fossil fuel combustion, and what are the connections
between it, cellular respiration, photosynthesis, and global climate change?
20. Explain that the combustion of carbon by burning of fossil fuels provides the primary energy source for most
of modern society.
21. Explain how the process of cellular respiration is similar to the burning of fossil fuels
22. Explain how global atmospheric carbon dioxide levels relate to cellular respiration, the combustion of fossil
fuels, and photosynthesis.