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Let's Get Absorbed: Understanding Photosynthesis in a Nutshell

Dive into the world of photosynthesis with this engaging guide. Explore the role of pigments, chloroplasts, and light in the process. Uncover the mysteries behind ATP, glucose, and the Calvin Cycle. Enhance your knowledge of the electromagnetic spectrum and cellular processes involved in energy production. Discover the importance of water, NADPH, and ATP in fueling plant life. Gain insights into the interconnected reactions that power photosynthesis. Elevate your understanding of light-dependent and light-independent reactions. Join us on a journey through the fascinating world of photosynthesis!

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Let's Get Absorbed: Understanding Photosynthesis in a Nutshell

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  1. Photosynthesis

  2. Let’s Get Absorbed - 100 Chloroplasts may contain a variety of these light-absorbing compounds, such as chlorophyll a

  3. Let’s Get Absorbed - 100 What are pigments?

  4. Let’s Get Absorbed - 200 Light boosts them to high-energy states to kick off photosynthesis

  5. Let’s Get Absorbed - 200 What are electrons?

  6. Let’s Get Absorbed - 300 Even though most leaves look green on the outside, you’re actually looking through a transparent layer to these chloroplast-containing cells just under the leaf’s surface

  7. Let’s Get Absorbed - 300 What are mesophyll cells?

  8. Let’s Get Absorbed - 400 Chlorophyll b and carotenoids are examples of these pigments that do not participate directly in photosynthesis, but instead assist by absorbing additional colors of light

  9. Let’s Get Absorbed - 400 What are accessory pigments?

  10. Let’s Get Absorbed - 500 Ultraviolet light and infrared light are found on either side of visible light in this range that includes many other forms of radiation

  11. Let’s Get Absorbed - 500 What is the electromagnetic spectrum?

  12. Knowing Your ATPs - 100 Also a part of your DNA, it’s the 5-carbon sugar molecule found in ATP

  13. Knowing Your ATPs - 100 What is ribose?

  14. Knowing Your ATP’s - 200 Not ATP, but this, is the long-term energy storage molecule in living things

  15. Knowing Your ATP’s - 200 What is glucose?

  16. Knowing Your ATP’s- 300 Energy released from ATP breakdown can be used to contract muscles, build large organic molecules, or carry out this cellular process

  17. Knowing Your ATP’s - 300 What is active transport?

  18. Knowing Your ATP’s- 400 In order for ATP to be produced during the light reactions of photosynthesis, these must supply the energy by diffusing through ATP synthase

  19. Knowing Your ATP’s - 400 What are H+ ions?

  20. Knowing Your ATP’s- 500 For every rotation of the Calvin Cycle, 9 ATP molecules are used. This many ATP molecules are needed for the production of 2 glucose molecules

  21. Knowing Your ATP’s - 500 What is 36?

  22. Light It Up - 100 It’s the part of a chloroplast where the light reactions of photosynthesis take place

  23. Light It Up- 100 What is the thylakoid membrane?

  24. Light It Up - 200 Chlorophyll a absorbs this color of light in both photosystems

  25. Light It Up- 200 What is red?

  26. Light It Up - 300 If this man hadn’t shed any light on the subject, we might still think that plants produce oxygen at night

  27. Light It Up - 300 Who is Ingenhousz?

  28. Light It Up - 400 Photosynthesis would quickly stop without the generous electron donations this molecule makes to photosystem II

  29. Light It Up - 400 What is water?

  30. Light It Up - 500 One of three products from the light reactions, it carries high-energy electrons to the Calvin Cycle

  31. Light It Up - 500 What is NADPH?

  32. Calvinism - 100 Because reactions of the Calvin Cycle happen “free” of light, this term is often used to describe them

  33. Calvinism - 100 What are light-independent reactions?

  34. Calvinism - 200 Melvin Calvin might have been quite confused about how carbohydrates were produced if this molecule didn’t enter the process right away

  35. Calvinism - 200 What is CO2?

  36. Calvinism - 300 This type of plant must store CO2 in organic acids during the night if it wants to produce glucose all day long

  37. Calvinism - 300 What is a CAM plant?

  38. Calvinism - 400 A common misconception, this molecule is not actually a product of the breakdown of CO2, but is instead a product of H2O breakdown during the light reactions

  39. Calvinism - 400 What is oxygen?

  40. Calvinism - 500 For every rotation of the Calvin Cycle, 6 NADPH molecules are used. This many NADPH molecules are needed for the production of 1 molecule of glucose

  41. Calvinism - 500 What is 12?

  42. Which Comes First? - 100 Light-dependent reactions, production of glucose, light-independent reactions

  43. Which Comes First? - 100 What are light-dependent reactions?

  44. Which Comes First? - 200 Photosystem I, Photosystem II, ATP synthase

  45. Which Comes First? - 200 What is photosystem II?

  46. Which Comes First? - 300 Use of ATP, splitting of water, Use of CO2

  47. Which Comes First? - 300 What is splitting of water?

  48. Which Comes First? - 400 Production of NADPH, production of glucose, production of O2

  49. Which Comes First? - 400 What is production of O2?

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