Chapter 10A Homework Questions

1. What is the overall chemical equation for photosytensis?

2. Draw a diagram of a chloroplast.

3. What is the source of oxygen that is produced in photosynthesis? How was this shown and by whom,

4. What is the Calvin cycle? Where was Melvin Calvin a professor when he did this work?

5. Where do the light reactions of photosynthesis take place? The dark reactions

6. How does photosynthesis in purple bacteria differ from photosynthesis in green plants?

7. If a plant were exposed to radioactive oxygen in water, wheat compound would the radioactive oxygen first appear?

8. Distinguish between the light reactions and the dark reactions.

9. What is Engelman’s experiment?

10. What is the absorption spectrum of chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b? Why does it not match the action spectrum of photosynthesis?