Summer term

First of all sorry for not using this more - definitely should have been more organised!  Here are the keypoints that everyone should be comfortable with by summer:

• What ATP is, how it is broken down and re-formed and why this happens (energy!).
• Photosynthesis (phs.) is probably the most important part of the course so far.  You need to be comfortable with the structure of the plant cell and where phs. happens, as well as the two stages (light indpeendent and light dependent).
• There are also factors that limit the rate of phs. - namely temperature, CO2 concentration and light intensity.  You should also know what the compensation point is.

• Finally, after phs. you need to have a rough idea of what happens to the glucose in both aerobic and anaerobic respiration.

Here is another diagram of the light independent scetion of phs.  Feel free to find others that make sense to you, as long as you know where the electrons come from (photolysis) and what is produced (ATP and NADPH).




This diagram shows us the light dependent section which feeds ATP and NADPH into the light independent section to produce sucrose.