Chapter 7 key terms
Across
- 1. organic molecule that slectively absorbs light of specific wavelenghts
- 4. organelle that specializes in photosynthesis
- 7. process by which any molecule becomes broken down by light energy
- 8. Coenzyme
- 9. Groups of hundreds of pigments.
- 10. self-nourishing organisms
- 14. light-driven reaction that attaches
- 17. transport chain/ Use the released energy to make hydrogen ions.
- 18. Semifluid matrix that fills the chloroplasts. Contains ribosomes
- 19. light-trapping part of a pigment. Accesory pigment.
Down
- 2. in a folded membrane inside the stroma
- 3. fixes carbon by attaching Co2 to five carbon RuBP
- 4. cycle builds sugars in the stroma
- 5. where elctromagnetic energy of light is packaged
- 6. synthase: transport proteins
- 7. make sugar from carbon dioxide
- 9. two three carbon molecules of PGA
- 11. most common photosynthetic pigment in plants
- 12. spectrum / visible light
- 13. the distance between the crests of 2 succesive waves of light.
- 14. dehyde 2 molecules of three-carbon PGA
- 15. a way in which organisms can harness the energy of light to built organic molecules from inorganic raw materials.
- 16. They pass from one molecule of the elctron transfer chain to the next
- 19. fixation: extraction of carbon atoms from an inorganic source.