JSS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, DUBAI

Grade : 12
Date: 7/12/13

Photosynthesis Worksheet -1

Section- A
a) Give one significant difference between the following:
1) Stroma and Grana
2) Chlorophyll a and b
3) Pyrrole andphytol
4) Primary pigment and accessary pigment
5) carotenes and xanthophylls
6) Absorption spectrum and Action spectrum
7) Assimilatory power and Reducing power
8) Excited state and Ground state
9) PSI and PSII
10) Cyclic and noncyclic photophosphorylation
11) C3 and C4 plants
12) PEP carboxylase and RUBP carboxylase
13) Calvin cycle and Hatch- slack cycle
14) Photorespiration and Aerobic Respiration
15) Upward and downward translocation
b) Explain Why:
1) All life on earth is bottled suns energy.
2) Photosynthesis protects us from harmful ultraviolet radiations of sun
3) Chlorophyll appears red in reflected light and green in transmitted light

4) Photosynthesis is considered as an oxidation-reduction process.

5) C4 plants are better adapted in tropical and desert areas.
6) Photorespiration interfers with the successful functioning of cavlin cycle.
7) Ferricyanide is reduced to ferrocyanide by illuminated chloroplasts.
8) Photosynthesis continues to occur when green plants are transferred from light to
dark.
9) The process of Photorespiration is disadvantageous in C3 plants.
10) Chlorophyll molecules are protected by carotenoids from photoxiation.
11) Carotenes appear red and yellow in colour.
12) Red light is more effective than blue light in the process of photosynthesis
13) Even Dark reaction is affected by temperatures , Light reaction is not affected.
14) Chlorophyll a is the main pigment.
15) C4 pathway is more expensive than C3 pathway.
c) Fill in the blanks:
1) ____________ is the general limiting factor for photosynthesis.
2) Pathway of Co2 fixation present in succulent plants is _____________.
3) Two pigment system in photosynthesis were discovered by _____________.
4) Maize, Sorghum, Sugarcane and other graminaceous plants are _________.
5) In C3 plants, the carbondioxide acceptor is ______________.
6) Each pigment has its own absorption _______________.
7) First stable product during C4 plants photosynthesis is ______________.
8) The energy utilized in the synthesis of one molecule of glucose is _____________.
9) The number of light quanta required for evolution of one molecule of oxygen is
called _____.
10) Red drop is drop in _____________.
11) Red drop occurs in wave length of _____________.
12) Emerson effect indicates the existence of _______________.

13) The empirical formula for chlorophyll a is _____________.

d) Name the following:
1) A morphological structure on the thylakoid which embodies a photosynthetic unit.
2) A special pigment in the photosynthetic pigment system that traps energy from
the harvesting
Molecules
3) A sudden fall in the quantum yield beyond the red region of the spectrum.
4) Inhibition of photosynthesis at higher light intensity
5) The mass movement of Organic compounds through sieve tubes.
6) Light energized synthesis of carbohydrates in chloroplast
7) Light energized synthesis of ATP.
8) Compactly stacked pile of discoid thylakoids.
9) A 20 carbon alcohol tail linked in porphyrin in chlorophyll molecules.
10) A collective term for carotenes and xanthophylls.
11) The energy borne by a photon.
12) The number of oxygen molecules produced per quantum of light absorbed.
13) The curve depicting the quantum yield at different wavelength of light.
e) Give the most significant function of the following:
1) pigments 2) Accessory pigment 3) RUBP 4) RUBISCO 5) Peroxysomes
f) State the best known contribution of :
1) Ruben and Kamen 2) Emerson 3) Van Neil 4) Hill 5) Calvin and Benson 6) Decker
7) Hatch and Slack 8) Black man 9) Munch
g) Expand the following:
1) ATP 2) NADPH2 3) PQ 4) RUBP 5) RUBISCO 6) DHAP 7) PGA 8) PEP 9) NADP 10)
OAA
11) AMP 12) CAM 13) PAR

Section- B
a) Define the following:
1) Pyrrole ring 2) Phytol tail 3) primary pigment 4) accessary pigment 5) carotenoids
6) Phycobillins
7) fluorescence 8) Photons 9) Quantum 10) Quantosomes 11) Quantum requirement
12) absorption
Spectrum 13) Action spectrum 14) Quantum yield 15) Achromatic light 16) Red
drop/Emersons first
effect 17) Light reaction 18) Assimilatory power 19) Reducing power 20) Reaction
centre or photo centre
21) Antenna molecules 22) Induction phase 23) Photo respiration 24) Kranz
anatomy 25) CAM
26)Sciophytes 27) Heliophytes 28) Photooxidation 29) Translocation 30) Photolysis
of water
b) Explain briefly:
1) Significance of photosynthesis 2) Structure of chloroplast 3) chlorophyll pigment
4) Quantum concept
5) Emerson experiment 6) Light reaction 7) Differences between cyclic and
noncyclic
photophosphorylation 8) Calvin cycle 9) Warburgs flashing experiment 10) PhotoRespiration
11) Kranz anatomy 12) Characteristics of C4 plants 13) C4 pathway 14) Differences
between C3 and C4
plants 15) Differences between photo respiration and Aerobic respiration 16) CAM
pathway
17) Blackmans principle of limiting facors 18) Ringing experiment 19) Mass flow
hypothesis
20) Differences between C3 and C4 path ways
C) Draw the following:

1) Chloroplast 2) Kranz anatomy 3) Non cyclic photophosphorylation flow chart 4)

Calvin cycle
5) Photo respiration 6) C4 path way 7) CAM pathway 8) Mass flow - diagram