Mastery Test Chapter 8

Question 0

Photosynthesis

Answer 0

Process where plants get energy from sunligh

Question 1

Adenosine triphosphate

Answer 1

ATD

Question 2

Pigment

Answer 2

Color substance for plants

Question 3

Chlorophyll

Answer 3

a green pigment, present in all green plants and in cyanobacteria, responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis.

Question 4

Thylakoid

Answer 4

each of a number of flattened sacs inside a chloroplast, bounded by pigmented membranes on which the light reactions of photosynthesis take place, and arranged in stacks or grana.

Question 5

Stroma

Answer 5

The spongy, colorless matrix of a cell that functionally supports the cell.

Question 6

Photo system

Answer 6

biochemical mechanism in plants by which chlorophyll absorbs light energy for photosynthesis

Question 7

Electron transport chain

Answer 7

Electrons that transfer into reactions

Question 8

ATP synthase

Answer 8

An enzyme that catalyzes the formation of ATP from the phosphorylation of ADP

Question 9

Calvin cycle

Answer 9

a metabolic pathway found in the stroma of the chloroplast in which carbon enters in the form of CO2 and leaves in the form of sugar.

Question 10

Heterotroph

Answer 10

Organism that eats both plants and animals

Question 11

NADP

Answer 11

cofactor used in anabolic reactions

Question 12

Light-dependent reactions

Answer 12

reactions that depend on light

Question 13

Light-independent reactions

Answer 13

reactions that don’t depend on light

Question 14

Autotroph

Answer 14

Producer