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What is the green color from?
Chlorophyll the green pigment within chloroplasts
CO2 enters and O2?
Exits the leaf through the Stomata
Where are Chloroplasts found?
In cells of the Mesophyll
What is the Mesophyll?
Interior tissue of the leaf
Where is Chlorophyll located?
The membranes of the thylakoikds
How do Chloroplasts make sugar molecules?
Split H2O into hydrogen and oxygen into sugar molecukes
What happens in the light rewcrions of the Thylakoiids?
Split H2O
Release
ReduCe NADP+ to NADP
Generate ATP from ADP by Photophosphorylation
Where does the Calving Cycle occur?
In the Stroma
What does the Calving Cycle create?
Forms sugar from CO2 Using ATP and NADPH
What does the Calving Cycle begin with?
Carbon Fixation
CO2 into organic molecules
Light is known as?
Electromagnetic radiation
How does Light travel?
In rhythmic waves
What I’d a Wavelength
The distance between crests of waves
What does Wavelength determine?
T he type of electromagnetic energy
