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| Van Niel's experiments with purple sulfur bacteria led to what hypothesis? |
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| During plant photosynthesis, the oxygen gas released comes from water. |
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| Isolated thylakoids were incubated in an acidic solution at pH 4 until the pH was equilibrated across the thylakoid membrane. The thylakoids were then transferred to a buffer at pH 8 with ADP and inorganic phosphate. ATP was synthesized. Did this experiment require light to generate the ATP? |
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| No, because ATP synthesis depends only on the presence of a hydrogen ion gradient and does not require light directly. |
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| Rubisco differs from PEP carboxylase in that _______. |
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| Rubisco can use oxygen gas as a substrate. |
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| The primary biochemical outcome of the activity of photosystem I is to ________. |
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| The sequestering of carbon in CAM plants helps them to survive by _______. |
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| allowing carbon dioxide to be gathered and used at different times of the day |
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