Chapter 8 Flashcards
The conversion of light energy to chemical energy that is stored in sugars or other organic compounds; occurs in plants, algae, and certain prokaryotes.
Photosynthesis
An organelle found in plants and photosynthetic protists that absorbs sunlight and uses it to drive the synthesis of organic compounds from carbon dioxide and water.
Chloroplasts
An organism that obtains organic food molecules without eating other organisms or substances derived from other organisms. Autotrophs use energy from the sun or from oxidation of inorganic substances to make organic molecules from inorganic ones.
Autotrophs
Organisms that can utilize light energy from sunlight and elements from inorganic compounds to produce organic materials needed to sustain their own metabolism.
Photoautotrophs
An organism that obtains organic food molecules by eating other organisms or substances derived from them.
Heterotrophs
Stomata
Stroma
Thylakoid
Chlorophyll a
Chlorophyll b
Light reactions
Photophosphorylation
NADPH
NADP+
Wavelength
