Molecules
Vocabulary
Light Reaction
Dark Reaction
Site of Photosynthesis
100
This molecule receives a phosphate group as H+ ions pass through ATP synthase...
What is ADP (Adenosine Diphosphate)?
100
Organisms that make their own food...
What are autotrophs?
100
Place where the light reactions occur...
What is in the thylakoid membrane?
100
Place where the dark reaction occur...
What is in the stroma of the thylakoid?
100
This organelle is the site of photosynthesis...
What is the chloroplast?
200
This is an energy carrying molecule that stores its energy in the last phosphate bond...
What is ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate)?
200
Clusters of pigments on proteins found in the thylakoid membrane that carry out the light reactions...
What are photosystems?
200
Name the two products produced by in the light reaction that go on to the dark reaction...
What are ATP and NADPH?
200
What enters the dark reactions from the atmosphere?
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?
200
Chloroplast are located in this cell...
What is the plant cell?
300
This molecule receives a H+ ion as electrons are passed down the electron transport chain in the light reactions...
What is NADP?
300
Series of molecules in the thylakoid membrane that transfer electrons from one molecule to the next...
What is the electron transport chain (ETC)?
300
What molecule and type of energy enter the light reaction...
What is water and light energy?
300
Another name for the dark reaction...
What is Calvin Cycle or Light Independent reaction?
300
This pigment is located on photosystems embedded in the thylakoid membrane...
What is chlorophyll?
400
This is a 5 carbon molecule that binds with CO2 in the dark reaction.
What is Ribulose Biphosphate (RuBP)?
400
This is the process by which ATP is formed...
What is chemiosmosis?
400
What is the byproduct of the light reaction...
What is molecular oxygen?
400
Name the product of the dark reaction...
What is sugar (glucose)?
400
The solution that surrounds the thylakoid in the chloroplast...
What is the stroma?
500
This molecule is produced from combinding CO2 and hydrogens in the dark reaction.
What is glucose?
500
Set of chemical reactions in which the product of one reaction goes on to be the reactant in the next reaction...
What is a biochemical pathway?
500
What happens to water molecules during the light reaction...
What is splits to donate electrons to photosystem II, hydrogen ions to the inside of the thylakoid, and oxygen is released into the air.
500
When dark reactions occur...
What is during the day and night?
500
Stacks of thylakoids in the chloroplast...
What is granum?
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