Regulation of biochemical pathways – Photosynthesis

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Across
  1. 2. Organic helper that binds to enzymes to help them work
  2. 5. How fast a process happens
  3. 9. Organism that must consume organic matter for nutrients
  4. 10. Using light energy to make glucose from inorganic ingredients
  5. 12. When rubisco binds to O₂ instead of CO₂, kicking off a wasteful pathway
  6. 14. Environmental condition that slows a process when in short supply
  7. 16. Unloaded coenzyme that shuttles hydrogen ions in photosynthesis (abbr.)
  8. 18. Cell’s main “energy currency,” formed by adding a phosphate (abbr.)
  9. 19. Plants that open for carbon fixation and save the Calvin cycle for nighttime
  10. 20. Photosynthesis stage on thylakoids where water is split
  11. 22. Plant group where the first stable product of carbon fixation is PGA
  12. 23. Organism that makes its own organic food from inorganic sources
Down
  1. 1. Photosynthesis stage in the stroma where carbon is fixed
  2. 3. Enzyme that fixes carbon to make PGA during the Calvin cycle
  3. 4. Green pigment in thylakoids that absorbs light
  4. 6. Splitting water using sunlight
  5. 7. Disc-shaped membrane compartment—site of the light-dependent reactions
  6. 8. Organelle that houses photosynthesis
  7. 11. Gel-like interior of the chloroplast where the Calvin cycle runs
  8. 13. Unloaded energy carrier with two phosphates (abbr.)
  9. 15. Plant group that first fixes CO₂ in mesophyll, then runs Calvin cycle in bundle sheath
  10. 17. Loaded coenzyme that carries hydrogen ions in photosynthesis (abbr.)
  11. 21. Stack of thylakoid membranes in a chloroplast