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Plant Biology 117
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
05/11/2010

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Flowering plants are also called
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angiosperms.
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Which group of organisms produce seeds in cones?
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Gymnosperms
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Which of the following is not a fundamental property of life?
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Ability to convert carbon dioxide to water
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Starch is a storage molecule produced by
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plants.
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Genes are composed of
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nucleic acids.
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Which of the following lipids form the main structural component of the plasma membrane?
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phospholipids
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The chief storage carbohydrate produced and utilized by animals is
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glycogen.
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Which of the following is an amino acid?
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phenylalanine
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Enzymes are made up of
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proteins.
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Which type of biological molecules have peptide bonds?
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Proteins
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Which phase of the cell cycle occurs right before mitosis?
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Gap Phase 2 (G2)
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During cytokinesis, the pharagmoplast vesicles fuse to form the cell plate which later become the
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cell wall.
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Where are new membranes synthesized?
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Endoplasmic reticulum
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Spindle fibers
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attach to chromosomes.
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What happens in the Calvin Cycle?
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Carbon dioxide is used to make sugars
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Which of the following are meristematic?
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Vascular cambium
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Which cell types are found in the phloem?
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Sieve tube members and companion cells
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What cell types are found in the xylem?
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Tacheids and vessel elements
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Guard cells are found in the
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epidermis.
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Wood is made up mostly of
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Xylem cells
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The rate of transpiration and photosynthesis is controlled by
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guard cells.
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Movement of water through the xylem is explained by
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Cohesion-Transpiration Theory.
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The movement of water from water in the xylem is
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from roots to leaves.
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What is the force driving the bulk of flow of water in xylem?
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transpiration
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Cohesion refers to attraction of water molecules to each other due to
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hydrogen bonds.
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Phloem cells are involved in
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transport of sugars from source to sink.
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Splitting of glucose into two pyruvate molecules occurs in
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glycolysis.
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What color in the absorption spectrum do chlorophyll A and B absorb most?
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Red and blue violet
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What are the products of the light-dependent reactions?
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ATP, oxygen, and NADPH
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Where do the light-dependent reactions take place?
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Thylakoid membranes
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What are the products of photosynthesis?
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Oxygen and sugars
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Where does the Calvin Cycle take place?
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Chloroplast stroma
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RuBisCo is an enzyme involved in
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making sugars.
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The carbon dioxide that you exhale comes mainly from the
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mitochondria.
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The oxygen that you inhale is used up in the
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electron transport chain.
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Which is the correct sequence of events in cellular respiration?
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Glycolysis, Krebs cycle, electron transport chain
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Which of the following do not have vascular bundles?
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Mosses
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The oxygen that plants produce comes from
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water.
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Dead cells in ground tissues are called
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schlerenchyma.
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Which of the following have flowers and fruits?
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angiosperms
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Which of the following have seeds but no flowers?
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gymnosperms
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Which of the following have vascular bundles but no seeds?
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ferns
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Which of the following are land plants that have no vascular bundles?
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mosses
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Which of the following is not a land plant?
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Algae
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Which of the following are made up of amino acids?
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Proteins
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Steroids are
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lipids.
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Which of the following stores genetic information?
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nucleic acids
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Polysaccharides are
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carbohydrates.
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Which of the following is a transport form of carbohydrates?
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Sucrose
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Which of the following is a major source of the plant cell wall?
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Cellulose
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Which of the following serves as an energy storage in plants?
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Starch
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Which of the following serves as an energy storage in animals?
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Glycogen
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Which of the following is the starting material for glycolysis?
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Glucose
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Which of the following serves as an energy storage in plants and animals?
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Triglycerides
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Which of the following is a structural component of the plasma membrane?
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Phospholipids
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Which of the following can act as hormones?
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Steroids
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Which of the following serves to retain water in plant tissues?
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waxes
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Which of the following contains DNA?
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Nucleus
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Which of the following have peptide bonds?
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(None of the Above) Amino acids
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Where are proteins and membranes made?
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Endoplasmic Reticulum
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Where are proteins and membranes made?
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Endoplasmic Reticulum
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Where does process and packaging of proteins take place?
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Golgi apparatus
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Which of the following provides turgor pressure to a plant cell?
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Vacuole
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Where does cellular respiration occur?
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None of the Above (Mitochondria)
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Which of the following is a colorless plastid that stores various materials such as starch or oils?
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None of the Above (Leucoplasts)
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Which of the following is the site of photosynthesis?
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Chlroplast
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Where does cellular respiration occur?
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Mitochondria
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Which of the following provides turgor pressure to a plant cell?
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None of the Above (Vacuole)
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Which of the following is a colorless plastid that stores varoius materials such as starch or oils?
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Leucoplast
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Which of the following is a pigmented plastid that can impart color to plant cells?
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Chromoplast
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In what stage of the cell cycle do organelles increase in number?
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Gap Phase 1 (G1)
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In which stage of the cell cycle does DNA replicate?
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S
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In which stage of the cell cycle does the nuclear membrane disappear?
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Mitosis
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In which stage of the cell cycle does the cell divide?
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cytokinesis
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In which stage of the cell cycle do spindle fibers appear?
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None of the Above (Prophase)
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In which stage of the cell cycle do spindle fibers appear?
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Prophase
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In which stage of the cell cycle does the nuclear membrane reappear?
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Telophase
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In which stage of the cell cycle do spindle fibers disappear?
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Telophase
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In which stage of the cell cycle do spindle fibers elongate and attach to chromosomes?
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Metaphase
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In which stage of the cell cycle do chromosomes align at the cell equator?
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Metaphase
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In which stage of the cell cycle do chromosomes extend and disperse?
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Telophase
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In which stage of the cell cycle do chromosomes separate?
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Anaphase
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In which stage of the cell cycle do chromosomes condense (become more compact)?
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Prophase
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Which type of tissues consist of dividing cells?
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Meristematic
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Which type of tissues have trichomes?
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Dermal
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Which type of issues form the bulk of nonwoody plants?
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ground
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Which of the following are conducting tissues?
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vascular
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Which of the following gives rise to leaves, nonwoody stems and roots?
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apical meristem
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Which of the following contributes to increase in diameter of a plant?
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Vascular cambium
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Which of the following conducts water and minerals from the roots upward?
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Xylem
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Which of the following have trichomes?
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None of the Above (Dermal tissue)
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Which of the following transports sugars from source to the sink?
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Phloem
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Which of the following takes place in the thylakoid membranes?
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Light-dependent reactions
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Which of the following produces NADPH, ATP, and oxygen?
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Light-dependent reactions
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Which of the following takes place int he stroma of the chroloplasts?
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Calvin cycle
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Which of the following makes sugars from carbon dioxide?
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Calvin cycle
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Which of the following splits glucose into two pyruvate molecules?
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glycolysis
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Which of the following occurs in the cytosol?
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glycolysis
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Which of the following makes NADH and FADH2 as pyruvate is stripped down carbon dioxide?
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Krebs cycle
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Which of the following concentrates protein int he mitochondrial inter-membrane space, which then enables production of ATP by ATP synthase?
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Electron transport chain
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