Chapter 9 Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. compound used by cells to store and release energy
  2. 5. an enzyme for the synthesis of ATP
  3. 7. organelle in plants that captures energy from sunlight and converts it into chemical energy
  4. 10. reactions in photosynthesis that use energy from light to produce ATP and NADPH
  5. 13. cluster of chlorophyll and proteins found in the thylakoids
  6. 15. principal pigment of plants and other photosynthetic organisms
Down
  1. 1. process used by plants and other autotrophs to capture light energy
  2. 2. organisms that make their own food from capturing sunlight
  3. 4. carrier molecule that transfers high energy electrons from chlorophyll to other molecules
  4. 6. light-absorbing molecules used by plants to gather the suns energy
  5. 8. organism that obtains food by consuming other living things (consumers)
  6. 9. light-independent reactions turn ATP and NADPH into sugar
  7. 11. saclike photosynthetic membranes found in chloroplasts
  8. 12. fluid portion of the chloroplast
  9. 14. series of electron carrier proteins that transport electrons during ATP-generating reactions