Overview of Photosynthesis

Organic compound containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in a ratio of one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms for each carbon atom

• granum

• stroma

• carbohydrate

• pigment

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-6

In chloroplasts, one of the stacked, flattened, pigment-containing membranes in which light-dependent reactions occur

• thylakoid

• carbohydrate

• stroma

• Rubisco

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-5

NGSS.HS-LS2-5

One of the stacks of pigment-containing thylakoids in a plant's chloroplast

• granum

• stroma

• pigment

• Calvin cycle

Fluid filled space outside the grana in which light-dependent reactions take place

• stroma

• granum

• pigment

• rubisco

Light-absorbing colored molecule, such as chlorophyll and carotenoid, in the thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts

• calvin cycle

• pigment

• thylakoid

• carbohydrate

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-5

NGSS.HS-LS2-5

In photosynthesis, the major electron carrier involved in electron transport

• NADP+

• Calvin cycle

• stroma

• pigment

Light-independent reactions during phase two of photosynthesis in which energy is stored in organic molecules as glucose

• Rubisco

• stroma

• Calvin Cycle

• carbohydrate

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-6

NGSS.HS-LS2-5

Enzyme that converts inorganic carbon dioxide molecules into organic molecules during the final step of the Calvin cycle

• Rubisco

• granum

• stroma

• pigment

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-6