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- 1. The Calvin cycle is a process that plants and algae use to turn carbon dioxide from the air into sugar, the food autotrophs need to grow.
- 4. These reactions are also called the light-independent reactions because they are not directly driven by light.
- 6. An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide.
- 7. A green pigment, present in all green plants and in cyanobacteria, responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis.
- 8. an energy-carrying molecule found in the cells of all living things.
- 10. The light-dependent reactions use light energy to make two molecules needed for the next stage of photosynthesis.
- 13. A coenzyme that functions as a universal electron carrier, accepting electrons and hydrogen atoms to form NADPH, or nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate.
- 14. ATP synthase is an enzyme that catalyzes the formation of the energy storage molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP) using adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and inorganic phosphate (Pi).
- 15. A biochemical mechanism in plants by which chlorophyll absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
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- 2. a series of electron transporters embedded in the inner mitochondrial membrane that shuttles electrons from NADH and FADH2 to molecular oxygen
- 3. The supportive tissue of an epithelial organ, tumor, gonad, etc., consisting of connective tissues and blood vessels.
- 5. An organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.
- 9. The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water.
- 11. Flattened sacs inside a chloroplast, bounded by pigmented membranes on which the light reactions of photosynthesis take place
- 12. The natural coloring matter of animal or plant tissue.