Photosynthesis and Cell Respiration Review Guide
AP Biology
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1. What is the equation for cellular respiration?
2. What is the equation for photosynthesis?
3. What does it mean to be oxidized? Reduced?
4. What are the 2 types of cell respiration?
5. What and where does glycolysis take place? How many ATP are produced?
6. What does glycolysis break down and what are the products of it?
7. Where does the pyruvate go once it is made?
8. What is the Citric Acid cycle? How many turns does it take to break down the pyruvates?
9. What product goes into the Citric Acid Cycle?
10. What are the products of the Citric Acid Cycle?
11. Where do the products from the Citric Acid Cycle go?
12. How many carbon dioxides are produced from 6 turns of the citric acid cycle?
13. What are the final steps of Cell Respiration?
14. What are the products of the ETC and chemiosmosis?
15. What is chemiosmosis and how does it work?
16. What is the difference between substrate level and oxidative phosphorylation?
17. What steps are substrate level in aerobic respiration?
18. What steps are oxidative phosphorylation in aerobic cell respiration?
19. What is fermentation?
20. Where does it take place?
21. What are the products of fermentation?
22. Is it oxidative or substrate level?
23. What organisms complete fermentation?
24. What is an aerobe? Anaerobe? Facultative anaerobe?
25. What are 2 reactions of photosynthesis?
26. What are the products of the light reaction?
27. Explain the light reaction in detail – including P680 and P700 and what happens in each with the photons and electrons.
28. What is the primary function of the light reactions of photosynthesis?
29. Where do the products from the light reaction go?
30. Why are plants green?
31. What is the difference between cyclic electron flow and non-cyclic electron flow? What is produced in each of these?
32. What is the primary function of the Calvin cycle/Dark Reaction?
33. What is produced in the Calvin Cycle/Dark Reaction?
34. What is photorespiration? Why is it important to plants?
35. Explain CAM plants, C4 plants, and C3 (normal) plants.