The Basics
The process that uses energy from the sun to make food from water and carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
When the electron travels, it passes through these structures that function as a pump, usually shorted to ETC.
What is the Electron Transport Chain?
This compound provides electrons to the light reactions
What is water?
In order for the Calvin cycle to produce 1 Sugar molecule, it needs to go around this many times.
What is 2?
These are the products generated by photosynthesis
What is Glucose and Oxygen?
The green organelle that absorbs and stores the energy of sunlight.
What is chloroplast?
When they exit the membrane, electrons join with other molecules to create this electron carrier molecule.
What is NADPH?
When ions flow through a transport protein at the end of the light reaction, their energy can be used to generate this energy-rich molecule
The Calvin cycle takes place in this gel-like fluid.
What is the Stroma?
These are the reactants of photosynthesis.
What are sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water?
The tiny pores in the bottom of leaves that take in carbon dioxide from the air.
What are stomata?
In the light reactions, electrons travel through these light absorbing structures to become charged.
What are Photosystems 1 and 2
When the electron splits away from the original molecule, this waste product is also produced and leaves the plant
What is oxygen (O2)?
This is the molecule that begins and ends the Calvin Cycle
What is RuBP?
For every 6 G3P molecules that are produced, this many are used to create glucose.
What is 1?
These types of organisms generate their own food.
What is an autotroph?
Ions pass through this enzyme at the end of the electron transport chain, which is named after the molecule that it creates.
The charged electrons power pumps in the ETC to move these ion across the membrane.
What are Hydrogen ions (H+)?
After Fixation, the 3 6-carbon molecule is broken down in 6 3-carbon molecules called this.
What is PGA?
Some organisms can produce food using chemicals instead of sunlight by using this process.
What is Chemosynthesis?
This is the organ that plants that do most of the photosynthesis
What is the leaf?
The light reactions take place on the membranes of these disk-shaped membranes
What are Thylakoids?
The process that breaks down water molecules in the light reaction is called this.
The Calvin cycle can be broken down in the steps Carbon Fixation, Reduction, and this.
What is Regeneration?
This is the interior part of the leaf that contains lots of light absorbing cells.
What is the Mesophyll?