Photosynthesis Vicab

Question 0

Organisms that can use the energy in sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water I to carbon compounds

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Photoautotrophs

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Organisms that can make their own food

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Autotrophs

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Organisms that can use the energy from chemical reactions to convert carbon dioxide into other carbon compounds

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Chemoautotrphs

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Organisms that must obtain their energy by eating autotrophs or other heterotrophs

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Heterotrophs

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One of the principal chemical compounds that cells use to store and release energy

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Adenosine triphosphate

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The process of using the energy of sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into high energy sugars and oxygen

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Photosynthesis

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Light absorbing molecules

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Pigments

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The green pigment that allows plants to absorb light for use in photosynthesis

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Chlorophyll

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An organelle found in plants and some Protista where photosynthesis takes place

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Chloroplasts

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Saclike photosynthetic membranes where the light dependent reactions of photosynthesis takes place

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Thylakoids

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Stacks if thylakoids

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Grana

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Clusters of chlorophyll and other pigments organized by proteins that collect the light needed for photosynthesis

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Photosystems

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The region inside the chloroplasts that lies outside of the thylakoids

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Stroma

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An electron carrier molecule that moves the electrons that have been excited by the sunlight during the light dependent reaction to the light independent reaction

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NADPH

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Produces oxygen gas and convert ADP and NADP+ into energy carrying ATP and NADPH; takes place in the thylakoids

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Light dependent reaction

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Uses ATP and NADPH from the light dependent reactions to produce high energy sugars; takes place in he stroma

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Light independent reaction

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The other name for the light independent reaction

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Calvin cycle

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The breaking apart of water with light; occurs during light dependent reaction

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Photolysis

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Prices that releases energy by breaking down glucose and other food molecules in the presence of oxygen

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Cellular respiration

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An energy carrier molecule that is used in cellular respiration

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NADH

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Process releasing energy from food molecules in the absence if oxygen

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Fermentation

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A chemical reaction that takes place without oxygen

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Anaerobic reaction

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A chemical reaction that requires oxygen to take place

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Aerobic reaction

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A process where pyridoxine acid and NADH are used to produce alcohol acid

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Lactic acid fermentation

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A process where Pyruvic acid is broken down into carbon dioxide in a series of energy extracting reactions also known as the citric acid cycle

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Krebs cycle

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Uses high energy electrons from the Krebs cycle to convert ADP into ARP

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Electron transport chain

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The inner membrane of the mitochondria; where the electrons transport chain is located

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Cristae

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The space inside the cristae of the mitochondria; where the Krebs cycle takes place

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Matrix