The Biosphere 2 project, in Tucson, Arizona, was an experiment involving a large sealed
terrarium with humans and photosynthetic plants living in balance. Why did the project have to
be interrupted after only a few months?
A. The humans ran out of food.
B. Levels of CO2 rose to dangerous levels.
C. The plants stopped producing oxygen.
D. The rate of photosynthesis was too high. - Answers Levels of CO2 rose to dangerous levels
In what location of the cell does the Calvin-Benson cycle occur?
thylakoid lumen
chloroplast stroma
cytoplasm
chloroplast grana - Answers chloroplast stroma
The difference between an oxidation reaction and a reduction reaction is that oxidation is the
______________ and reduction is the ______________.
loss of electrons; gain of electrons
,gain of electrons; loss of electrons
loss of protons; gain of protons
gain of protons; loss of electrons - Answers loss of electrons; gain of electrons
If the Gibbs free energy change value for a reaction is less than zero, this reaction is _______.
exothermic
exergonic
endothermic
endergonic - Answers exergonic
Is the net reaction favorable for the following series of coupled reactions and what supports
that conclusion?
Phosphoenolpyruvate + H2O = Pyruvate + Pi ΔG°' = -62.2 kJ/mol
ADP + Pi = ATP + H2O ΔG°' = +30.5 kJ/mol
No, ΔG°' > 0
Yes, ΔG°' > 0
,No, ΔG°' < 0
Yes, ΔG°' < 0 - Answers Yes, ΔG°' < 0
Flux is defined as the rate at which __________is/are interconverted.
metabolites
sugars
enzymes
energy - Answers metabolites
Enzyme active sites ___________.
always exclude water in catalyzed reactions.
are characterized as a pocket or cleft.
are nonspecific with regard to substrate binding.
can only bind a single substrate at a time. - Answers are characterized as a pocket or cleft
Which answer correctly classifies the compound with its relationship to aspartate
transcarbamoylase?
CTP; allosteric activator
, ATP; allosteric activator
ATP; allosteric inhibitor
CTP; substrate - Answers ATP; allosteric activator
The following picture is an example of what phenomenon?
photooxidation
fluorescence
electron transfer
resonance energy transfer - Answers resonance energy transfer
Electrons from plasotocyanin are passed on to
cholorophyll P700+
cholorophyll P680+
cytochrome b6f
plastaquinone - Answers cholorophyll P700+