UNM Biology Undergraduate Labs

Photosynthesis and Respiration

 


Review Questions

- The process in which plant use solar energy to combine molecules of water and carbon dioxide in glucose is called ________, and the primary organelle involved is the ____________.
- The process in which animals break down sugar molecules, such as glucose, into energy (ATP) and smaller molecules, such as carbon dioxide and water, is called ______________, and the primary organelle involved is the ______________.
- Plants use photosynthesis to produce their own food in order to sustain themselves.  What is the term used to describe this process?
- Photosynthesis and cellular respiration are both oxidation-reduction processes.  Write out the equation for both, and indicate in each where oxidation take place and where reduction takes place.
- Give and example of a poison that interferes with cellular respiration and explain how it does this.
- What is an endergonic reaction?
- What is an exergonic reaction?
- What are the end products of fermentation?
- During the light reaction of photosynthesis, photo system I and II produce 3 products.  _________ is produced as a byproduct and diffuses out of the leaf, whereas ___________ and _____________ and consumed in the light independent (or dark) reaction.
- List 3 things autotrophic organisms, need to produce glucose.
- When we see that an object is a certain color, is light of that wavelength being absorbed or reflected?
- What is the chemical reaction equation of photosynthesis?  Of fermentation?
- Which produces more energy, aerobic, or anaerobic respiration?