CP Biology Photosynthesis Study Guide
Chapter 4 - Photosynthesis
ATP: full name, structure, ATP cycle
How enzymes speed up reactions, function and factors Affecting Enzyme speed
How inhibitors work including competitive, noncompetitive, feedback inhibition
Redox reactions - concept
Photosynthesis – definition, overall equation
Basic parts of a plant cell
Identify reactant oxidized and reactant reduced
Major reactants and products for both stages of photosynthesis
Describe the major processes or phases of the light dependent and light independent reactions
The structure of a chloroplast and what happens where
Role of ATP/ADP, NADPH/NADP+, H+, RuBP, H2O, G3P
Compare & contrast photosystem I and photosystem II
Contrast C3 plants, C4 plants and CAM plants
Vocabulary:
Stomata (stoma- singular)
Stroma
Thylakoids
Grana (granum- singular)
Light reactions
Calvin cycle
Carbon fixation
Electromagnetic energy
Wavelength
Pigment
Reaction center
1̊ (primary) electron acceptor
Photophosphorylation
C3 plants
C4 plants
CAM plants