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Photosynthesis in Higher Plants

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Ques. 1AIPMT 2004

Plants adapted to low light intensity have

  1. larger photosynthetic unit size than the sun plants
  2. higher rate of CO2 fixation than the sun plants
  3. more extended root system
  4. leaves modified to spines.

Answer

(1) larger photosynthetic unit size than the sun plants

Solution

A photosynthetic unit is a group of pigment molecules (antenna / light-harvesting complex) that pass the trapped energy to one reaction centre.

∵ Shade plants (low light) must trap as much of the weak light as possible, they have more chlorophyll and larger light-harvesting complexes per reaction centre.

⇒ Their photosynthetic unit is larger than that of sun plants.

∵ Light is limiting, their rate of CO2 fixation is lower than that of sun plants; extended roots and spiny leaves are xerophytic adaptations, not shade adaptations.

∴ Plants adapted to low light intensity have a larger photosynthetic unit size than the sun plants.

Answer: (1)

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Ques. 2AIPMT 2003

Which fractions of the visible spectrum of solar radiations are primarily absorbed by carotenoids of the higher plants?

  1. Blue and green
  2. Green and red
  3. Red and violet
  4. Violet and blue.
Ques. 3AIPMT 2003

Which one of the following is wrong in relation to photorespiration?

  1. It occurs in chloroplast
  2. It occurs in day time only
  3. It is a characteristic of C4 plants
  4. It is a characteristic of C3 plants.
Ques. 4AIPMT 2003

In sugarcane plant 14CO2 is fixed to malic acid, in which the enzyme that fixes CO2 is

  1. ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase
  2. phosphoenolpyruvic acid carboxylase
  3. ribulose phosphate kinase
  4. fructose phosphate.
Ques. 5AIPMT 2003

Stomata of CAM plants

  1. are always open
  2. open during the day and close at night
  3. open during the night and close during the day
  4. never open.
Ques. 6AIPMT 2003

Which element is located at the centre of the porphyrin ring in chlorophyll?

  1. Calcium
  2. Magnesium
  3. Potassium
  4. Manganese
Ques. 7AIPMT 2003

Which one of the following concerns photophosphorylation?

  1. ADP + AMP Light energy ATP
  2. ADP + Inorganic PO4 Light energy ATP
  3. ADP + Inorganic PO4 ATP
  4. AMP + Inorganic PO4 Light energy ATP
Ques. 8AIPMT 2002

Which of the following absorbs light energy for photosynthesis?

  1. Chlorophyll
  2. Water molecule
  3. O2
  4. RuBP
Ques. 9AIPMT 2002

In photosynthesis energy from light reaction to dark reaction is transferred in the form of

  1. ADP
  2. ATP
  3. RuDP
  4. chlorophyll
Ques. 10AIPMT 2001

Which pigment system is inactivated in red drop?

  1. PS-I and PS-II
  2. PS-I
  3. PS-II
  4. None of the above
Ques. 11AIPMT 2001

Which pair is wrong?

  1. C3-maize
  2. C4-Kranz anatomy
  3. Calvin cycle-PGA
  4. Hatch and Slack cycle-OAA

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