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ch 5 vocab
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| pigment | a substance that gives another substance or a mixture its color |
| chlorophyll | a green pigment that is present in most plant cells, that gives plant their characteristic green color, and that reacts with sunlight, carbo dioxide, and water to form carbohydrates. |
| carotenoid | a class of pigments that are present mostly in plant and that aid in photosynthesis |
| thylakoid | clusters of pigments are embedded in the membranes of disk-shaped structure |
| electron transport chain | the series of molecules through which excited electrons are passed along a thylakoid membrane |
| NADPH | an electron carrier that provides the high energy electons needed to make carbon-hydrogen bonds i the third stage of photosynthesis |
| carbon dioxide fixation | the transfer of carbon dioxide to organic compuonds |
| calvin cycle | a series of enzyme-assisted chemical reactions that produces a three-carbon sugar |
| aerobic | metabolic processes that do not require oxygen |
| anaerobic | metabolic porcesses that do not require oxyge |
| glycolysis | an enzyme-assisted anarobic process that breaks down one six-carbon molecule of glucose to two three carbon pyuvate ions |
| NADH | forms an electron carrier |
| krebs cycle | |
| FADH | is another type of electron carrier |
| fermetation | the cycling NAD+using an organic hydrogen accepotor |
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