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Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Carbon Dioxide | is a colorless, odorless gas found in our atmosphere. |
oxygen | A colorless, tasteless, oderless, gaseous element that abounds in the atmosphere. |
Glucose | is the main type of sugar in the blood and is the major source of energy for the body's cells. |
Photosynthesis | the process by which green plants and certain other organisms transform light energy into chemical energy. |
autotrophs | An organism capable of synthesizing its own food from inorganic substances, using light or chemical energy. |
Chloroplast | is the combination of two biological terms, plastid and chloros, which means green. |
Chlorophyll | The green pigment found in the chloroplasts of higher plants and in cells of photosynthetic microorganisms. |
stoma | iny openings called stomata allow plants to exchange gases necessary for cellular processes, such as photosynthesis. |
guard cells | One of the paired cells in the epidermis of a plant that control the opening and closing of a stoma of a leaf. |