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Photosynthesis and primary productivity

Canonical unit B13

• Chloroplasts: catching light and turning it into ATP
  Chloroplast structure with each part linked to its function, photosynthetic pigments and the absorption and action spect…
• The Calvin cycle: three steps, and the arithmetic behind them
  The light-independent stage in the stroma: RuBP and carbon dioxide combined by rubisco to give two molecules of GP, GP r…
• Limiting factors, glasshouses and the energy that gets through
  Light intensity, carbon dioxide concentration and temperature as limiting factors and how to read them off a graph, the …

Practical work that lands here

• Chromatography and the separation of pigments
• Measuring respiration and photosynthesis rates