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chapter 8 vocab
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| adenonsine triphosphate | compound used by cells to store and release energy |
| heterotroph | organism that obtains food by consuming other living things |
| autotroph | organisms that make their own food |
| photosynthesis | the process by which autotrophs use the energy of sunlight to produce high-energy carbohydrates-sugars-starches-that can be used as food |
| pigment | plants gather the sun's energy with light-adsorbing molecules |
| chlorophyll | the plants' principal pigment |
| thylakiod | chloroplasts contain an adundance of saclike photosynthetic membranes |
| stroma | the fluid portion if the chloroplast,outside if the thylakoids |
| nadp | one of thes carrier molecules |
| light-dependent reactions | the first set of reactions |
| light-dependent reactions | set of reactions in photosynthesis that do not require light |
| photosystem | thylakiods contian clusters of chlorophyll and proteins |
| electron transport chain | a series of slectron carrier proteins that shuttle high-energy electrons during atp- generating reactions |
| atp synthase | the thylakoid membrane contains a protein |
| calvin cycle | light-independent reactions |