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Photosynthesis in Higher Plants

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Ques. 1AIPMT 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.

Answer

(4) Violet and blue.

Solution

Carotenoids (carotenes and xanthophylls) are yellow–orange accessory pigments.

⇒ They absorb mainly in the short-wavelength region of the visible spectrum (about 400–500 nm), i.e. violet and blue light, and reflect yellow–orange.

As per NCERT, accessory pigments absorb light of wavelengths not absorbed by chlorophyll a and transfer the energy to it.

∴ Carotenoids primarily absorb violet and blue light.

Answer: (4)

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Ques. 2AIPMT 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. 3AIPMT 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. 4AIPMT 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. 5AIPMT 2003

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

  1. Calcium
  2. Magnesium
  3. Potassium
  4. Manganese
Ques. 6AIPMT 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. 7AIPMT 2002

Which of the following absorbs light energy for photosynthesis?

  1. Chlorophyll
  2. Water molecule
  3. O2
  4. RuBP
Ques. 8AIPMT 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. 9AIPMT 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. 10AIPMT 2001

Which pair is wrong?

  1. C3-maize
  2. C4-Kranz anatomy
  3. Calvin cycle-PGA
  4. Hatch and Slack cycle-OAA
Ques. 11AIPMT 2000

Which is the first CO2 acceptor enzyme in C4 plants?

  1. RuDP carboxylase
  2. Phosphoric acid
  3. RuBisCO
  4. PEP- carboxylase

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