Name: __________________

Date: __________ Per: ____

Photosynthesis Interactive
Courtesy of LAH & JJ

Part I: Biomanbio Interactive

1. Log on to Biomanbio.com
2. Save your game as you go along so you can return to it
later
3. Click on Photosynthesis & Respiration
4. Click on Photosynthesis Interactive
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1. Click on ‘Leaf Anatomy’ and follow directions
the leaf
a. What is the site of Photosynthesis? ________________________________
because most of the chloroplast is located in the leaf.
i. Why wasn’t it the trunk of the tree? ______________________________
b. What cells are the primary cells responsible for photosynthesis in this leaf? Thylakoid-green
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palisade mesophyll cells stroma- inside liquid disks
chloroplast
c. What organelle performs photosynthesis? _________________________________
i. Draw a picture of this organelle and label the thylakoids and stroma:

2. Click on ‘Light-Dependent Reactions’

thylakoid
a. Where do the light-dependent reactions take place? _______________________________________
i. Steps of the light-dependent reactions, Photolysis:
1. Step 1:
light strikes chllorophyl in photosystem II this causes electrons to become excited. the
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electrons leave photosystem II and begin to travel down the proteins of the electron
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transport chain.
2. Step 2 :
water splits to replace electrons lost in photosystem II. This
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produces hydrogen and oxygen.
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a. As electrons travel down the electron transport chain (ETC), their energy is
used to pump hydrogen ions (protons) across the membrane into the
thylakoid space.
b. This results in a high concentration of H+ in the thylakoid space and a lower
concentration in the stroma. This causes a concentration gradient where H+
ions will want to move from high concentration to an area of low
concentration.
c. Name of the protein where the membrane lets H+ions through?
ATP synthases
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 ATP
d. The diffusion of H+ ions through ATP synthase allows ________________to be
produced!! {This ATP will be used during the next step, the
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calvin cycle ________________________, as an energy source to help
produce ___________________________________}.
3. The electrons continue down the ETC to Photosystem I.
light
4. ______________________ strikes Photosystem I causing the electrons to get excited again.
a. Where do these excited electrons go?
The second electron transport chain
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b. What are these electrons used for?
to reduce NADP+ to form NADPH
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An electron carrier
c. What is NADPH? _____________________________________________________________
i. This means it is similar to ATP; it carriers energy
d. Theses electrons are carried to the stroma and will be used …
in the calvin cycle to make organic molecules like sugars.
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b. Summarize the basics of the light-dependent reactions:
i. Light strikes in photosystem 2 causing electrons to go through and follow into photosystem 1
These reactions make ATP and NADPH that'll be used in teh calvin cycle to make sugar
ii.
c. NOW! Make photolysis happen in the interactive!!

3. Click on the ‘Calvin Cycle’

carbon fixation
a. What is Phase 1? ____________________________________
i. A five carbon sugar is bound to a molecule of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) by the enzyme, Rubisco.
ii. This forms 2 molecules of 3-phosphoglycerate
reduction
b. What is Phase 2? ______________________________________
i. Each molecule of 3-phosphoglycerate is reduced to form G3P which requires energy from
ATP
____________ NADPH
and electrons from _________.
glucose
ii. 2 molecules of G3P leave the Calvin Cycle, to form __________________
regeneration of RUBP
c. What is phase 3? _____________________________________
calvin
i. The other 5 G3P molecules are used to regenerate RuBP so that the ______________________
cycle
_____________________ can continue.
ii. These reactions require energy to occur. This comes from ATP produced from the
light reaction
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Part II: Photosynthesis Diagram:
Use the following words to fill in the diagram
Sun Thylakoids Chemical Energy Calvin Cycle Glucose
Water Oxygen ADP NADPH Carboy Dioxide

Carbon dioxide

sun

water

ATP
calvin cycle glucose
thylakoid chemical energy
NADPH

oxygen