Study Guide - Photosynthesis, Cellular Respiration and Cell Cycle

Honors Biology

Explain the terms/concepts below in detail so you will be able to apply them on the exam.

Photosynthesis – 18 Qs

1. PS equation including reactants, products, roles of energy and oxygen.

Be sure to know sequence of all reactions and relationship between reactants and products for all reactions

2. Electromagnetic spectrum (Fig 6.2), absorbed vs reflected light wavelengths (Figs 6.3, 6.4)

absorption spectrum vs action spectrum

3. Chloroplast, stroma, grana, thylakoid membrane (Figs 6.1, 6.6)

4. Light dependent reactions(Fig 6.8, 6.9, 6.10)

what are they, where do they occur, what are their reactants and products

5. Main products of the LDR? (i,e. Photosystems II, photosystem I, electron transport system

Where are they, what happens in each (i.e. reactants and products)

Role of photons, electrons and water, what does pumping H+ across thylakoid membrane accomplish

6. NADPH, ATP

What are they, how & where are they made and what do they do

7. How and why is oxygen released?

8. Calvin cycle (light independent reactions)

what is it, where does it occur, what are its reactants and products

RUBP, rubisco, Carbon fixation

Cellular Respiration – 11 Qs

9. CR equation including reactants, products and roles of energy and oxygen (why do we need O2?)

10. *Relationship between PS and CR page 125*

11. Pyruvate, Acetyl-CoA, NADH, ATP, FADH2

what are they, where are they produced, what do they do

12. Glycolysis

what is it, where does it occur, what are its reactants and products

what happens without O2?

13. Kreb’s Cycle (Figs 6.26)

what is it, where does it occur, what are its reactants and products

14. Electron transport chain and ATP Synthesis (chemiosmosis)

what is it, where does it occur, what are its reactants and products (Figs 6.24, 6.25, 6.26)

Cell cycle and Cell Division – 11 Qs

15. Explain how do prokaryotes reproduce?

16. Draw and explain the parts of the cell cycle

17. Draw and explain what happens during interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase and

cytokinesis

18. Explain how cancer is related to cell division

Scientific Method – 9 Qs* including parts of science and graph interpretation