Vocabulary
The process of making food in a plant is called___________.
What is photosynthesis?
The enzyme responsible for the Calvin Cycle
What is Rubisco?
The energy carrying molecule that contains two phosphate groups
What is ADP?
The 'input' for the light dependent reaction
What is water?
Who goes through the process of photosynthesis?
What are plants and some bacteria?
The ultimate source of energy for most organisms.
What is the sun?
The ion that creates a gradient during the Electron Transport Chain
What is H+?
The three main 'parts' of ATP
What is adenine, ribose, and phosphates?
The location of the light dependent reaction
What is grana (specifically thylakoid membrane)?
Another name for the calvin cycle and the light independent reaction
What is the dark reactions?
The energy carrying molecule that contains three phosphate groups
What is ATP?
The photosystem in which water is split into Hydrogen and Oxygen
What is Photosystem II?
The place where energy is held in ATP
What is between the 2nd and 3rd phosphate groups?
The inputs and outputs for the calvin cycle.
What is ATP, NADPH, CO2 and Glucose?
Describe the net flow of gasses during photosynthesis
What is carbon dioxide in and oxygen out?
The fluid like substance that fills the spaces between the grana.
What is stroma?
The enzyme that phosphorylates ADP into ATP
What is ATP Synthase?
When energy is released during the ATP-ADP cycle
What is when a phosphate group is removed from ATP?
Location of the light independent reactions
What is the stroma?
The purpose of photosynthesis
The green pigment located in the thylakoid membrane that traps the energy from the sun is called_____________.
What is chlorophyll?
The number of times that the Calvin Cycle must be completed in order to create one glucose molecule.
What is six?
The full name for ATP (spelling counts!)
What is adenosine triphosphate?
Energy carrying molecules sent from light independent reaction to the light dependent reaction.
ADP and NADP+