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What is sunlight?
This catalyst of photosynthesis enters the leaves and is captured by pigments in the chloroplasts
What is the light dependent reaction?
This type of reaction requires sunlight
What is twice?
The amount of times that the Calvin Cycle occurs
What is ATP?
This energy molecule is also shared by mitochondria
What are lipids, proteins, carbohydrates and nuclear acids?
The four major macronutrients that are found in living things
What is carbon dioxide?
This reactant of photosynthesis enters the plant from the air through pores in the leaves.
What are oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen?
The three atoms that make up carbohydrates
What is the thylakoid?
The structures in the chloroplasts that contains the plant pigments
What is a carbohydrate?
The food produced by plants is this type of macromolecule
What are phospholipids?
The structures that make up the cell membrane
What are CAM plants?
These types of plants close their stomata during the day, only opening them up at night
What is green?
The color of light reflected by chlorophyll
What is the stroma?
CO2 enters through the leaf and diffuses throughout this part of the chloroplast
What is chemosynthesis?
Plants without access to sunlight use this method of creating food
What are electrons?
These excited particles move down the ETC
What is the NADP+ and ADP?
These are the last molecules to accept high energy electrons in the ETC
What is photosynthesis?
The energy providing plant process that occurs in the chloroplasts.
What is the stroma?
The area of the chloroplast where the Calvin Cycle occurs
What is photorespiration?
This process happens when stomata close
What are phosphate group?
ADP becomes ATP with the addition of this molecule
What is chlorophyll?
This carotenoid absorbs all light, except green
What is the The Calvin Cycle?
This process would take place even if the plant no longer has sunlight
What is six?
The number of carbon dioxide and water molecules needed for photosynthesis, as well as the number of oxygen molecules produced during photosynthesis
What is absorbing light?
Carotenoids have this function
What is a phosphate group?
3C steals this group from ATP to turn it back into the 5C RuBP