Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions, India

A.P,TELANGANA,KARNATAKA,TAMILNADU,MAHARASHTRA,DELHI,RANCHI

PHOTOSYNTHESIS

1. Green plants are autotrophs as they _________ food through a process called________
2. Green plants carry out photosynthesis which is a _________, ________ process
3. Photosynthesis is important due to two reasons one it is primary source of _________on
earth and second it releases __________into the atmosphere
4. Significance of variegated leaf experiment is that photosynthesis occurs on in _________
parts of ________ the presence of light
5. Half leaf experiment showed that ________ is required for Photosynthesis
6. ________ discovered O2 in 1.774.
7. Jan Ingenhousz showed that sunlight is essential to the plant that somehow purifies the
_________ by burning candies or breathing animals
8. Ingenhousz elegant experiment showed that only __________ parts of plants could release
__________
9. Julius von sach’s provided evidence for production of _________ when plants grow and
glucose is usually stored as _________
10. First action spectrum was established by_________
11. In action spectrum experiment, light is illuminated on a green alga _____, placed in a
suspension of______
12. A milestone contribution was made by a microbiologist, ______
light
13. 2H 2 A + ________  → 2A+ _______ + H 2O

14. Membrane system of chloroplast is responsible for _______ and also for the synthesis of
______ & ______
15. __________ reactions are also called light reactions and occur in _________
16. __________ reactions are also called dark reactions and occur in ________.
17. __________ molecules of water act as substrate in photosynthesis
18. Chl-a gives __________ colour, chl-b gives ___________ colour and carotenoids gives
_________ colour in chromatogram
19. Chl-a absorbed maximum light at ________ and ___________ regions.
20. ________, _________ and ________ acts as accessory pigments.
21. Accessory pigments not only enable a _________ range of wavelength of incoming light to
be utilized but also protect chl- a from __________
22. Photochemical phase includes____________, _____________, ___________ and
formation of high energy compounds
23. LHC are made up of _________ bound to proteins
24. PSI reaction centre chl-a absorbs light at _________ nm. And PSII at ___________ nm
25. Movement of electrons in ETS is __________ in terms of an __________ potential scale.
26. Electrons from PSII and PSI after excitation are transfered to another electron acceptor
molecule that has a ______ redox potential.
27. The whole scheme of transfer of electrons starting from PSII _______ hill to the acceptor,
down the _________ to PSI, and _________ hill from PSI to another acceptor and finally
___________ hill to NADP +
28. Splitting of water is associated with PS _________
29. Photolysis provides electrons to PS ________ and the electrons needed to replace those
removed from PSI are provided by __________
30. Cyclic photophosphorylation occurs in the_______
31. In respiration protons accumulate in ______ while in photosynthesis protons accumulate in
_______
32. In photosynthesis ATP synthesis is linked to development of proton gradient across______
membranes of________
33. Leaf pigments can be separated by________ technique.
34. Water splitting complex is associated with ________ which itself is physically located on
the _______ side of the membrane of thylakoid.
35. Cytochrome is ________ porphyrin pigment.
36. Chemiosmosis requires a______, a_______ pump, a_______ gradient and _________
37. Calvin conducted biosynthetic phase in _________
38. Which technique helped Calvin to investigate C3 cycle_______
39. CO2 acceptor in Calvin cycle is _______ while in C4 cycle is_____

40. The first stable product in C3 cycle is ________ while in C4 cycle is________
41. For synthesis of a molecule of glucose the requirement of ATP are _______ and NADPH
are_________
42. Steps of Calvin cycle are________, _________& __________
43. Carboxylation in C3 plants is mediated by________ enzyme while fixation in C4 plants is
mediated by_______ enzyme.
44. Maize or sorghum exhibit________ anatomy.
45. In C4 plants, C3 cycle operates in _________ cells
46. Temp optimum for C3 plants is _________ while for C4 plant is _________

47. C3 plants show saturation beyond ________ µ1L−1 while C4 corresponding to saturation at

about _______ µ1L−1 of CO2 .

48. ________ is rarely a limiting factor and_________ is the major limiting factor for
photosynthesis.
49. Bundle sheath cells around the vascular bundles in C4 plants are characterized by large
number of_______, ________ cell walls and no_________ spaces.
50. First product of photorespiration is_________ and is ________ carbon compound.
51. RUBISCO catalysis a wasteful reaction in ________ plants called _________
52. Linear relationship is seen between incident light and CO2 fixation rates at ______ light
intensities.
53. In the chloroplast NADP reductase enzyme is located on the ________.
54. NADP+ is reduced to NADPH+ H+ by receiving electron from_________protons
from_____
55. chloroplasts will be aligned with their flat surfaces parallel to the walls during_____
56. chloroplasts will be perpendicular to the incident light during ___________
57. Directly light driven reactions are called ________ occur in_______
58. The most abundant plant pigment in the world is _________
59. During light phase of photosynthesis ________ is oxidized and _______ is reduced.
60. During dark phase of photosynthesis ________ is oxidized and _______ is reduced.
61. Source of CO2 during Calvin cycle in C4 plants is_________
62. Number of photons needed for evolution of one molecule of oxygen is__________
63. Donor and acceptor of electrons is the same chlorophyll molecule in ________
64. In C3 pathway out of ________ molecule of 3PGAL______ are used from regeneration of
six RUBP.
65. Electrons from PSII move to cytochrome b6 f through__________ and from cytb6 f to PSI
through________
66. Electron from PSI reach NADP + through _________ and ________
67. _______ metal is constituent of chlorophyll
68. _________ wavelength is PAR.
69. ________ light range is least effective in photosynthesis
70. Chemosynthetic bacteria obtain energy from________
71. Cyanobacteria have pigments in_________
72. Tomatoes, carrot, chillies are red due to presence of_______ pigment.
73. Plants that are partial autotrophs are________ plants
74. Substrate for photorespiration is________
75. C4 cycle was discovered by________ and _______

76. Principle of limiting factors was proposed by_________