Old, Dead White Guys
This man, in 1948, was responsible for discovering the second stage of photosynthesis where CO2 is converted into glucose
Melvin Calvin
These organisms are able to make their own food using either sunlight or inorganic chemicals
Autotrophs
The two stages of photosynthesis
Light Dependent Rxns and Calvin Cycle
The structures containing the pigments that absorb light energy
Photosystems
Where the Calvin cycle takes place
The stroma
This man, in 1771, used a bell jar, a candle, and a plant, to discover that plants release oxygen
Joseph Priestly
The molecular compound used by all organisms as an immediate energy source
ATP
The ultimate source of energy that drives photosynthesis
Sunlight
This molecule is one of the suppliers of H+ to the thylakoid interior
H2O
Besides ATP this is need to convert 3PG into G3P
NADPH
n the 1940s, Sameul Ruben and his colleagues at the University of California at Berkeley, discovered that the oxygen released by plants comes from this source
water
The energy in ATP is released when these are broken
Phosphate bonds
The type of molecule that is able to absorb light energy
Pigments
This molecule replenishes electrons lost in PSII
H2O
The molecule that combines with CO2 at the beginning of the Calvin Cycle
RuBP
In 1643, he calculated that a plant gains most its mass from the water it uptakes - he was later proven wrong
Jan van Helmont
This structure generates the energy needed to convert ADP into ATP
ATP synthase
The photosynthesis equation
6CO2+ 6H2O →C6H12O6 + 6O2
The molecule used to power ATP synthase
H+
The number of G3P molecules released from the Calvin Cycle to produce glucose
2
In 1779, discovered that plants need sunlight to produce oxygen
Jan Ingenhousz
This molecule is used to store energy after being reduced during the LDR
NADPH
The color of light, other than green, that chlorophyll is very bad at absorbing
yellow
The area located withing a granum where the light dependent reactions take place (be specific)
thylakoid membrane
The number of carbon atoms found in RuBP
5