Photosynthesis Vocabulary

Process used by plants and other autotrophs to capture light energy and use it to power chemical reactions that convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and energy-rich carbohydrates such as sugars and starches

• Photosynthesis

• ATP synthase

• Calvin Cycle

• Photosystems

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Organism that obtains food by consuming other living things; also called a consumer

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• Chlorophyll

• Stroma

Series of electron carrier proteins that shuttle high-energy electrons during ATP-generating reactions

• NADP+

• Light-independent

• Light-dependent

• Electron transport chains

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Light-absorbing molecule used by plants to gather the sun's energy

• Pigment

• Chlorophyll

• Stroma

• Thylakoid

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Saclike photosynthetic membranes found in chloroplasts

• Stroma

• Thylakoid

• Pigments

• Photosystems

Compound used by cells to store and release energy

• ATP

• ATP synthase

• Stroma

• NADP+

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Light-independent reactions of photosynthesis in which energy from ATP and NADPH is used to build high-energy compounds such as sugar

• Stroma

• ATP synthase

• Calvin Cycle

• Electron Transport Chains

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Cluster of proteins that span the cell membrane and allow hydrogen ions to pass through it

• Photosystems

• Calvin Cycle

• Electron Transport Chain

• ATP synthase

Principal pigment of plants and other photosynthetic organisms

• Stroma

• Chlorophyll

• NADP+

• ATP

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Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate; carrier molecule that transfers high-energy electrons from chlorophyll to other molecules

• NADP+

• ATP

• ATP synthase

• Calvin Cycle

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