photosynthesis
Across
- 5. organism that captures energy from sunlight or inorganic substances to produced its own food
- 8. colourless, odourless, tasteless gas essential to living organisms
- 9. energy-carrying biological molecule, which, when broken down, drives cellular activities
- 10. double-membrane organelle that captures light energy and converts
- 11. in chloroplasts, one of the stacked, flattened, pigment containing membrane
- 12. two-phase anabolic pathway in the Sun's light energy
Down
- 1. organism that cannot make its own food and gets its nutrients and energy
- 2. the supportive tissue of an epithelial organ, tumor, gonad
- 3. a set of chemical reactions performed by the plants to reduce carbon dioxide and other compounds into glucose
- 4. the natural compound present in green plants that gives them their color.
- 6. the first stage of photosynthesis process in which solar energy is converted into chemical energy in the form of ATP and NADPH.
- 7. a simple sugar which is an important energy source in living organisms and is a component of many carbohydrates.