day 6 vocab

5. an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide.
8. the chemical element with the symbol O and atomic number 8.
9. an organic compound and hydrotrope that provides energy to drive many processes in living cells,
10. a plastid that contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis takes place.
11. membrane-bound compartments inside chloroplasts and cyanobacteria.
12. the process by which plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to create oxygen and energy in the form of sugar

1. an organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.
2. the supportive tissue of an epithelial organ, tumor, gonad, etc., consisting of connective tissues and blood vessels.
3. light-independent reactions, bio synthetic phase, dark reactions, or photosynthetic carbon reduction cycle of photosynthesis are the chemical reactions that convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen-carrier compounds into glucose
4. a green pigment, present in all green plants and in cyanobacteria, responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis. Its molecule contains a magnesium atom held in a porphyrin ring.
6. uses light energy to make two molecules needed for the next stage of photosynthesis: the energy storage molecule ATP and the reduced electron carrier NADPH
7. the main sugar found in your blood