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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Autotroph | Organisms whose cells use sunlight to make glucose |
| Synthesis | the production of chemical compounds by reaction from simpler materials |
| Anabolic | Type of chemical reaction that uses enegry to build larger molecules photosynthesis for example |
| Metabolism | All the chemical reactions to a cell |
| Thermodynamics first law | Srudy of the flow and transformation of enegry in the universe |
| Thermodynamics second law | With each successive energy transfer or transformation, less energy is available to do work. |
| Chloroplast | Specilazed organelles in the cells of autotrophs that contain chlorophyll site of photosynthesis |
| ATP | Adenine triphosphate biological molecule that provieds enegery to the cell |
| NADPH | Electron carrier in photsynthesis |
| THYLAKOID | bounded by pigmented membranes on which the light reactions of photsynthesis takes place and arranged in stacks or grana. |
| Stroma | Fluid-filled space surrounding the grana in the chloroplast |
| Calvin Cycle | Stage of photsynthesis when the carbon from carbon dioxide is fixed into glucose |
| Synthesis | combination or composition, |
| Chemical Equation | A chemical equation is the symbolic representation of a chemical reaction wherein the reactant entities are given on the left-hand side and the product entities on the right-hand side. ... |
| Catabolic | Type of chemical reaction that releases enegry by breaking bonds apart. |
| Anabolic | The phase of metabolism in which simple substances are synthesized into the complex materials of living tissue. |
| enegry | Ability to do work |
| Hetrotrpoh | Another word to describe consumers |
| Glucose | a simple sugar that is an important energy source in living organisms and is a component of many carbohydrates. |
| Chemoautotroph | Chemotrophs are organisms that obtain energy by the oxidation of electron donors in their environments. These molecules can be organic or inorganic |
| photsynthesis | Anabolic pathway in which light enegery is converted to chemical enegry |
| pigment | Light-absorbing molecule |
| thylakoid memebrane | Site of the light dependent reactions |
| light dependent reactions | First stage in photsynthesis in which water is split and oxygen is released as a waste product |