| Question | Answer |
| Which photosystem uses p700 | PSI
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What colour light do the accessory pigments carotenoids absorb | Blue
| True or False? Miss Parker won an award for being the best science teacher in London? | true
| TREASURE TIME! Mr Byfield (a great Biologist!) used to keep chocolate somewhere in JAGS – if you know you will find some there! | drawer
| What holds photosystems in place | proteins embedded in the grana
| Why couldn't the plants escape prison? | Their cells were surrounded by walls.
| Define photophosphorylation | the makingof ATP from ADP and Pi in the presence of light
| Which photosystem is involved in cyclic photophosphorylation | PI (P700)
| Which Biology hero did Miss Parker meet (and get rejected from) at the weekend? | David Attenborough
| The Calvin Cycle fixes CO2 and uses it to build complex organic molecules as worked out by Calvin and his associates in the 1940s but what is Calvin’s first name? | Melvin
| 2 molecules of GP are reduced and phosphorylated to become what in the Calvin Cycle? | 2TP
| We all love enzymes but which is arguably the most I important enzyme on earth? | rubisco
| True or False? Miss Parker’s brother invented a machine that can replicate photosynthesis by transferring light energy into chemical energy | false
| In classification we name the genus and species…TREASURE TIME if you find Apis mellifera | honey bees
| What did one cell say to his sister cell when she stepped in his toe? | Ouch mitosis
| 500 million years ago CO2 was 20 times higher than it is now, what is the current % of CO2 in the atmosphere? | 0.03-0.06
| What is the name of the piece of equipment used to measure the rate of photosynthesis by collecting the volume of Oxygen produced in a certain time? | photosynthometer
| True or False? Miss Parker used to be a professional clown? | True
| List 2 products that we use GM microorganisms to produce | insulin and HGH
| What is the term used in gene therapy to describe an organism that has received an allele from other organism? | transgenic
| In electrophoresis, which fragments move furthest? | shorter fragments
| When was Dolly the sheep born? | 1996
| How many times faster do your finger nails grow compare to your toe nails? | 4
| True or False? Miss Parker has told David Cameron off in Margaret Thatchers study, Downing Street | True |
