New South Wales is Australiaâs oldest and most populated state. It was originally settled as a penal colony on the shores of Port Jackson where the bustling capital city of Sydney now stands. More than a third of Australians live in New South Wales, and Sydney is the nationâs largest city. Victoria is the smallest of the mainland states in size but the second most populated. Melbourne is the capital and is Australiaâs second most populated city. During the gold rush of the 1850s, it became one of the world's largest and wealthiest cities.
Answers. Best Answer: All sorts of biochemical reactions take place in the cytoplasm. One extremely important reaction is Glycolysis, which converts glucose to pyruvate while producing small amounts of ATP for energy.
Figure 5: The light and dark reactions in the chloroplast. The chloroplast is involved in both stages of photosynthesis. The light reactions take place in the thylakoid. There, water (H 2 O) is oxidized, and oxygen (O 2) is released.