1. In some ways, chlorophyll can be thought of as a solar panel like the ones used to generate electricity at power plants. Using terms such as granum, photosystem, ATP and chlorophyll, explain this comparison.
This comparison of a chlorophyll being thought of as a solar panel like the ones used to generate electricity at power plants can be explained as a chlorophyll would be the solar panel, a photosystem would be a specific arrangement of the panels, granum would be a stack of solar panels, and finally, ATP would be the electrical energy that is generated at the power plant.
2. Would a plant grow better in a room painted blue or in a room painted green? Explain your answer.
A plant would grow better in a room painted blue because chlorophylls…show more content… is the most abundant photosynthetic pigment molecule in plants and algae. Therefore, out of all the photosynthetic bacteria, chlorophyll a. would presumably come from cyanobacteria.
5. When vegetables and flowers are grown in greenhouses in the winter, their growth rate greatly increases if the CO2 concentration is raised to two or three times the level in the natural environment. What is the biological basis for the increased rate of growth?
The biological basis for the increased rate of growth is that the CO2 concentration being raised to two or three times the level in the natural environment provides the vegetables and flowers with a greater amount of CO2, which means more material to produce carbohydrates, thereby, leading to the plants growing better.
6. Over the past decades, the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has increased. Predict the effect of increasing carbon dioxide concentrations on photorespiration.
The effect of increasing carbon dioxide concentrations on photorespiration would be that photorespiration rates should decrease as photorespiration involves rubisco reacting with O2 instead of CO2. Since CO2 is increasing, it would make it more likely that rubisco would interact with CO2 instead of