Bot.3 Photosynthesis vocab

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Organisms that use sunlight or inorganic chemical energy to create organic compounds.

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Autotroph

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Converts sunlight into chemical energy as organic compounds, mainly carbohydrates.

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Photosynthesis

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Organisms that obtain energy from food instead of sunlight or inorganic substances.

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Heterotroph

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First stage of photosynthesis: light energy to chemical energy stored in ATP and NADPH.

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Light Reaction

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Organelles in plant and algae cells that absorb light

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Chloroplast

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Membranes inside chloroplast's inner membrane arranged as flattened sacs

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Thylakoid

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Thylakoids connected in stacks

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Granum

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Solution surrounding the grana

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Stoma

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Compounds that absorb light

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Pigment

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Most important pigment in thylakoid membrane

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Chlorophyll