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- 3. Stomata are tiny, microscopic and critical for photosynthesis. Thousands of them dot on the surface of the plants
- 8. The powerhouse of the cell
- 9. Radiant energy is the physical energy resulting from electromagnetic radiation, usually observed as it radiates from a source into the surrounding environment
- 11. The outcome of the input
- 13. Cellular respiration is a series of chemical reactions that break down glucose to produce ATP
- 14. Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy
- 15. Chlorophyll is the name of the green pigment that plants use to make food during a process called photosynthesis
- 16. Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound made up of molecules that each have one carbon atom covalently double bonded to two oxygen atoms
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- 1. Glucose is a simple sugar with the molecular formula C₆H₁₂O₆
- 2. a plastid that contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis takes place
- 4. a process that involves rearrangement of the molecular or ionic structure of a substance, as opposed to a change in physical form or a nuclear reaction
- 5. a substance that takes part in and undergoes change during a reaction.
- 6. A heterotroph is an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources
- 7. Oxygen is a chemical element – a substance that contains only one type of atom
- 10. In plants, ATP is synthesized in the thylakoid membrane of the chloroplast
- 12. an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide