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MC Chapter 10 Test
MC Chapter 10 Test
Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the
question.
Use the following information to answer the questions below. Thomas Engelmann illuminated a filament of algae
with light that passed through a prism, thus exposing different segments of algae to different wavelengths of light.
He added aerobic bacteria and then noted in which areas the bacteria congregated. He noted that the largest
groups were found in the areas illuminated by the red and blue light.
1) What did he conclude about the congregation of bacteria in the red and blue areas?
A) Bacteria are attracted to red and blue light and thus these wavelengths are more reactive than other wavelengths.
B) Bacteria congregated in these areas due to an increase in the temperature of the red and blue light.
C) Bacteria congregated in these areas due to an increase in the temperature caused by an increase in photosynthesis.
D) Bacteria released excess carbon dioxide in these areas.
E) Bacteria congregated in these areas because these areas had the most oxygen being released.
2) An outcome of this experiment was to help determine
A) the relationship between wavelengths of light and the oxygen released during photosynthesis.
B) the relationship between heterotrophic and autotrophic organisms.
C) the relationship between the concentration of carbon dioxide and the rate of photosynthesis.
D) the relationship between wavelengths of light and the rate of aerobic respiration.
E) the relationship between wavelengths of light and the amount of heat released.
3) If you ran the same experiment without passing light through a prism, what would you predict?
A) The number of bacteria present would decrease due to an increase in the carbon dioxide concentration.
B) There would be no difference in results.
C) The number of bacteria would decrease due to a decrease in the temperature of the water.
D) The bacteria would be relatively evenly distributed along the algal filaments.
E) The number of bacteria present would increase due to an increase in the carbon dioxide concentration.
4) Organisms that can exist on light and an inorganic form of carbon and other raw materials
A) are best classified as decomposers.
B) are called photoautotrophs.
C) do not exist in nature.
D) are called heterotrophs.
E) are both C and D.
5) Organisms that metabolize organic molecules produced by other organisms
A) are heterotrophs.
B) are autotrophs.
C) are decomposers.
D) are B and C.
E) are A, B, and C.
6) The early suggestion that the oxygen (O2) liberated from plants during photosynthesis comes from water was
A) made following the discovery of photorespiration because of rubisco's sensitivity to oxygen.
B) A, B, and C.
C) confirmed by experiments using oxygen-18 (18O).
D) first published by Melvin Calvin, who also discovered the Calvin cycle.
E) A and B.
7) Which of the following are products of the light reactions of photosynthesis that are utilized in the Calvin cycle?
A) H2O and O2
B) electrons and H+
C) CO2 and glucose
Figure 10.1
10) Figure 10.1 shows the absorption spectrum for chlorophyll a and the action spectrum for photosynthesis. Why
are they different?
A) Bright sunlight destroys photosynthetic pigments.
B) Green and yellow wavelengths inhibit the absorption of red and blue wavelengths.
C) The two lines are probably the result of inaccurate measurements.
D) Other pigments absorb light in addition to chlorophyll a.
E) Anaerobic bacteria probably interfered with light absorption.
11) The reaction-center chlorophyll of photosystem I is known as P700 because
A) this pigment is best at absorbing light with a wavelength of 700 nm.
B) there are 700 chlorophyll molecules in the center.
C) it absorbs 700 photons per minute.
D) there are 700 photosystem I components to each chloroplast.
12) All of the events listed below occur in the energy-capturing light reactions of photosynthesis except
A) light is absorbed and funneled to reaction-center chlorophyll a.
B) carbon dioxide is incorporated into PGA.
C) oxygen is produced.
D) NADP+ is reduced to NADPH.
E) ADP is phosphorylated to yield ATP.
13) In the thylakoid membranes, what is the main role of the antenna pigment molecules?
21) Some photosynthetic organisms contain chloroplasts that lack photosystem II, yet are able to survive. The best
way to detect the lack of photosystem II in these organisms would be
A) to do experiments to generate an action spectrum.
B) to test for liberation of O2 in the light.
C) to determine if they have thylakoids in the chloroplasts.
D) to test for CO2 fixation in the dark.
E) to test for production of either sucrose or starch.
22) Cyclic electron flow in the chloroplast produces
A) A, B, and C.
B) NADPH.
C) glucose.
D) A and B.
E) ATP.
23) As a research scientist, you measure the amount of ATP and NADPH consumed by the Calvin cycle in 1 hour.
You find 30,000 molecules of ATP consumed, but only 20,000 molecules of NADPH. Where did the extra ATP
molecules come from?
A) cyclic electron flow
B) chlorophyll
C) photosystem I
D) noncyclic electron flow
E) photosystem II
24) Assume a thylakoid is somehow punctured so that the interior of the thylakoid is no longer separated from the
stroma. This damage will have the most direct effect on which of the following processes?
A) the synthesis of ATP
B) the reduction of NADP+
C) the splitting of water
D) the absorption of light energy by chlorophyll
E) the flow of electrons from photosystem II to photosystem I
25) In plant cells, ATP is made in response to light. An electron transport chain is involved. This electron transport
chain is found in the
A) thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts.
B) matrix of mitochondria.
C) stroma of chloroplasts.
D) inner membrane of mitochondria.
E) cytoplasm.
26) Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between photosynthesis and respiration?
A) Respiration is anabolic and photosynthesis is catabolic.
B) Photosynthesis stores energy in complex organic molecules, while respiration releases it.
C) Respiration is the exact reversal of the biochemical pathways of photosynthesis.
D) ATP molecules are produced in photosynthesis and used up in respiration.
E) Photosynthesis occurs only in plants and respiration occurs only in animals.
27) The chemiosomotic process in chloroplasts involves the
A) diffusion of electrons through the thylakoid membrane.
B) reduction of carbon dioxide to glucose by NADPH and ATP.
C) oxidation of water to produce ATP energy.
D) movement of water by osmosis into the thylakoid space from the stroma.
E) establishment of a proton gradient.
photosynthesis
respiration
both photosynthesis and respiration
neither photosynthesis nor respiration
Figure 10.2
60) Which of the following statements is true concerning the diagram in Figure 10.2?
A) It represents the type of photosynthesis found in most aquatic plants.
B) It represents the kinds of cells found in conifers from cold, wet climates.
C) It represents some of the events of C4 photosynthesis.
D) Two of the above statements are true.
E) All of the above statements are true.
61) Referring to Figure 10.2, oxygen would inhibit the CO 2 fixation reactions in
A) cell I during the night and cell II during the day.
B) cell II only.
C) both cell I and cell II.
D) neither cell I nor cell II.
E) cell I only.
62) In an experiment studying photosynthesis performed during the day, you provide a plant with radioactive
carbon (14C) dioxide as a metabolic tracer. The 14C is incorporated first into oxaloacetic acid. The plant is best
characterized as a
A) CAM plant.
B) C4 plant.
C) heterotroph.
D) C3 plant.
E) chemoautotroph.
63) Plants that fix CO2 into organic acids at night when the stoma are open and carry out the Calvin cycle during
the day when the stoma are closed are called
A) C3 plants.
B) CAM plants.
C) C4 plants.
D) A and B.
E) A, B, and C.
64) Where does the Calvin cycle of photosynthesis take place?
A) outer membrane of the chloroplast
B) cytoplasm surrounding the chloroplast
1) Answer: E
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