Ch. 8 Photosynthesis Flashcards
Self -feeders, sustain themselves w/o eating anything derived from other living beings; they produce their oraganic molecules from CO2 and other inorganic raw materials from the environment
Autotrophs
Chloroplast capture light from the sun to convert to chemical energy that is stored in sugar and other organic molecules
Photosynthesis
Biological consumers
Heterotrophs
Mesophyll
The tissue in the interior of the leaf
Microscopic pores in plants that CO2 enters in & oxygen exits
Stomata
Dense fluid inside chloroplasts
Stroma
Sacs inside the chloroplasts suspended in the stroma, third membrane system
Thylakoids
The space inside a thyLakoid
ThyLakoid space
Columns of thylakoids
Grana, granum
The green pigment inbplants
Chlorophyll
The site of photosynthesis in plants
Chloroplasts
What are the reactants of photosynthesis?
6CO2 + 12 H2O+ light energy
What are the products of photosynthesis?
Three carbons sugar that can be made into glucose, oxygen, and water (C6H12O6 + O2)
Where does the oxygen produced from? ( CO2 or H2O)
H2O
The steps of photosynthesis that occur in the thyLakoid membranes, converting solar energy to chemical energy
Light reactions
When light is absorbed by chlorophyll drives a transfer of electrons and hydrogen ions from water to what acceptor?
NADP+
Light reactions generating ATP BY Using Chemiosmosis to power the addition of a phosphate group to ADP
Photophosphorylation
What does the light reactions process produce?
Oxygen, NADPH, and ATP
Occurs in the stroma, incorporating CO2 into organic molecules that are converted to sugar, the dark reaction/ light independent reaction, doesn’t require light directly
Calvin Cycle
Carbon into organic compounds
Carbon fixation
The distance between the crest of electron magnetic waves
Wavelength
Various colors that can be detected by the human eye
Visible light
Discrete particles in light
Photons
