Chapter 8 - Photosynthesis

the process by which plants, algae, and some bacteria use sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to produce carbohydrates and oxygen

• carbon fixation
• photosynthesis
• Calvin cycle
• light reaction

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an organism that obtains organic food molecules by eating other organisms or their byproducts and that cannot synthesize organic compounds from inorganic materials

• autotroph
• chemiosmosis
• heterotroph
• carbon fixation

the initial reactions in photosynthesis, which are triggered by the absorption of light by photosystems I and II and include the passage of electrons along the electron transport chains, the production of NADPH and oxygen gas, and the synthesis of ATP through chemiosmosis

• photosynthesis
• electron transport chain
• chemiosmosis
• light reaction

an organelle found in plant and algae cells where photosynthesis occurs

• chloroplast
• chlorophyll
• pigment
• carbon fixation

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a membrane system found within chloroplasts that contains the components for photosynthesis

• stroma
• thylakoid
• chlorophyll
• photosystem

a stack of thylakoids in a chloroplast

• thylakoid
• stroma
• granum
• photosystem

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in plants, the solution that suround the thylakoids in a chloroplast

• cartenoid
• granum
• stoma (plural, stomata)
• stroma

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a substance that gives another substance or a mixture its color

• pigment
• chlorophyll
• cartenoid
• photosystem

a green pigment that is present in most plant cells, that gives plants their characteristic green color, and that reacts with sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to form carbohydrates

• carotenoid
• chlorophyll
• pigment
• chloroplast

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in the thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts, a cluster of chlorophyll and other pigment molecules that harvest light energy for the light reactions of photosynthesis

•  granum
• stroma
• electron transport chain
• photosystem

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