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Photosynthesis
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| autotroph | organism that can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce its own food; also called a producer |
| heterotroph | organism that obtains energy from the foods it consumes; also called a consumer |
| adenosine triphosphate (ATP) | one of the principal chemical compounds that living things use to store and release energy |
| photosynthesis | process by which plants and some other organisms use light energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and high energy carbohydrates such as sugars and starches |
| pigment | light absorbing molecules |
| chlorophyll | principal pigment of plants and other photosynthetic organisms; captures light energy |
| thylakoid | saclike photosynthetic membrane found in chloroplasts |
| photosystem | light collecting units of the chloroplast |
| stroma | fluid region outside the thylakoid membranes in cloroplasts |
| light dependent reaction | reactions of photosynthesis that use energy from light to produce ATP and NADPH |
| ATP synthase | large protein that uses energy from H+ (hydrogen) ions to bind ADP and a phosphate group together to produce ATP |
| Calvin Cycle | reactions of photosynthesis in which energy from ATP and NADPH is used to build high energy compounds such as sugar; also known as light independent reactions |
| NADP+ | one of the carrier molecules that transfers high-energy electrons from chlorophyll to other molecules |
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