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1. What is the difference between heterotrophs and autotrophs? Between photoautotrophs and chemoautotrophs?
2. Understand the structure of a chloroplast. You should be able to label the organelle including its membranes, the thylakoid, the thylakoid space, granum, and stroma.
3. What is the overall chemical reaction describing photosynthesis?
4. What are the two phases of photosynthesis? Be able to describe the role of each in the process?
5. What role does NADP+ and NADPH play in photosynthesis?
6. What is meant by photophosphorylation? Carbon fixation?
7. Describe the types of photopigments utilized in photosynthesis and what role they play.
8. What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
9. What does an absorption spectrum tell you about a photopigment?
10. Why do we see chlorophyll a as green?
11. What is a photosystem? How does it harvest light?
12. Be able to describe how noncyclic electron flow generates ATP and NADPH (i.e. the six steps)
13. What role does water play in the above process?
14. Be able to describe cyclic electron flow.
15. Be familiar with the dark reaction (i.e. the Calvin cycle). Know what comes in and what comes out and why.
16. What is photorespiration?
17. What mechanism do C4 and CAM plants utilize to overcome photorespiration?