Bio CK12 2.22 Calvin Cycle

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Across
  1. 2. organism that gets food by consuming other organisms
  2. 3. the ability to do work
  3. 6. simple sugar that all living things use to store and transport energy
  4. 8. first stage of photosynthesis in which light energy from the sun is captured and changed into chemical energy that is stored in ATP and NADPH
  5. 13. short-term energy carrier; temporarily stores energy during photosynthesis
  6. 15. organic compound that supplies energy to the body, such as sugar and starch
  7. 16. characteristic that an organism inherits that helps it survive and reproduce in a given environment
  8. 18. an individual living thing
  9. 21. sum of all the biochemical reactions in an organism
  10. 22. an enzyme involved in carbon fixation that combines one molecule of CO2 with a 5-carbon sugar called ribulose biphosphate (RuBP); the most abundant enzyme on Earth
  11. 23. substance that is present at the start of a chemical reaction
  12. 24. tiny pore in the leaf of a plant that can open and close to control transpiration (release of water vapor) and gas exchange with the air
  13. 25. organelle in the cells of plants and algae, that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis
  14. 26. organic molecules, such as glucose, that organisms use for chemical energy
Down
  1. 1. green pigment in a chloroplast that absorbs light energy during the light reactions of photosynthesis
  2. 4. series of electron-transport molecules that pass high-energy electrons from molecule to molecule and capture their energy
  3. 5. process that occurs when one or more substances, called reactants, is changed into one or more new substances, called products
  4. 7. a protein that acts as a biological catalyst, increasing the rate of a biochemical reaction
  5. 9. carbon-containing molecules, such as carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids that form the basis of life
  6. 10. process in which cells use carbon dioxide, water, and light energy to make oxygen and glucose, an energy-storing sugar
  7. 11. process in which an organism builds low-energy inorganic CO2 into high-energy organic molecules like glucose
  8. 12. mixture of gases that surrounds a planet such as Earth
  9. 14. a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction by lowering the activation energy without being used up in the reaction
  10. 16. energy-carrying molecule that cells use to power their metabolic processes; provides the cell with an immediate usable form of energy
  11. 17. organism that makes its own food
  12. 19. multicellular, heterotrophic eukaryote with specialized cells that lack cell walls; member of the animal kingdom
  13. 20. modified front legs, or forelimbs, that are adaptations for flight