Photosynthesis Flashcards
This stage of photosynthesis converts solar energy to chemical energy which produces two molecules: ATP and NADPH
Light Reactions
This stage of photosynthesis, chloroplasts uses ATP, the high energy electrons in NADPH, and CO2 to produce sugar molecules
Carbon Reactions
In this process, it involves the oxidation of water molecule, producing free electrons and oxygen gas
Photolysis
Occurs in the stroma, it is the metabolic pathway that uses NADPH and ATP to assemble CO2, molecules into three-carbon carbohydrates molecules that eventually assembled into glucose and other molecules
Carbon Reactions (Calvin Cycle)
Series of reactions that begin when the rubisco enzymes adds O2 instead of CO2 and RuBP, yields to no sugar and wasting both ATP and NADPH for the first turn
Photorespiration
This pathway combines with a three-carbon molecule to form a four-carbon compound
C4 Pathway
Open their stomata only at night, fix CO2, then fix it again in the Calvin cycle during the day
Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM)
Produces their own organic compounds from inorganic materials such as CO2 and water
Autotrophs
Rely on organic molecules produced by other organisms
Heterotrophs
Converts kinetic energy in light to potential energy
Photosynthesis
Most abundant plant cell which is mostly green and a photosynthetic pigment in plants, algae, and cyanobacteria
Chlorophyll a
Energy capturing pigment molecules other than chlorophyll a, like chlorophyll b and carotenoids
Accessory Pigments
Tiny openings in the epidermis of a leaf or stem where plants exchange CO2 and O2
Stomata
Collective term for the cells filling the leaf’s interior that contain abundant chloroplasts, It is where most photosynthesis occurs
Mesophyll
Organelles of photosynthesis in plants and algae
Chloroplasts
