click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Photosynthesis(AK)
| Word | Clue |
|---|---|
| ATP | coenzyme used as an energy carrier in the cells of all organisms |
| Autotroph | An organism that produces complex organic compounds (producer) |
| CellularRespiration | the set of metabolic processes. |
| chlorophyll | A green pigment found in almost all plants, algae, and cyanobacteria. |
| chloroplast | Organelles found in plant cells and other eukaryotic organisms that conduct photosynthesis. |
| consumer | Any of the organisms in all trophic levels in a food chain, except for producers. |
| energy | The ability to do work, or produce change |
| food | Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink, or that plants absorb, in order to maintain life and growth. |
| foodchain | A series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food. |
| glucose | 1.A simple sugar that is an important energy source in living organisms and is a component of many carbohydrates. |
| heat | the form of energy that flows between two samples of matter due to their difference in temperature. |
| heterotroph | An organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances. |
| inorganicmolecules | A molecule that lacks carbon, such as nitrate (NO3) or ammonium (NH4). |
| NADPH | a coenzyme used in anabolic reactions, such as lipid and nucleic acid synthesis. |
| organicmolecules | An organic compound is any member of a large class of chemical compounds whose molecules contain carbon. |
| photosynthesis | 1.The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water. |
| producer | An autotrophic organism capable of producing complex organic compounds from simple inorganic molecules through the process of photosynthesis. |