Across
- 2. An organism that cannot manufacture its own food and instead obtains its food and energy by taking in organic substances
- 4. Tiny openings that allow plants to exchange gases necessary for cellular processes, such as photosynthesis
- 6. Light dependent photosynthetic pathway that is used to generate ATP and NADPH
- 9. The movement of ions across a semipermeable membrane, down their electrochemical gradient
- 11. The organelles that carry on photosynthesis
- 13. A biochemical mechanism in plants by which chlorophyll absorbs light energy for photosynthesis
- 17. An enzyme involved in the first major step of carbon fixation, a process by which atmospheric carbon dioxide is converted by plants and other photosynthetic organisms to energy-rich molecules
- 20. A group of compounds that pass electron from one to another via redox reactions
- 23. A process in plant metabolism where the enzyme RuBisCO oxygenates RuBP
- 25. Fix CO2 at night forming a C4 molecule that is released to the Calvin cycle during the day
Down
- 1. Converts solar energy into the chemical energy of a carbohydrate
- 3. A cyclical series of biochemical reactions that occur in the stroma of chloroplasts during photosynthesis
- 5. Organism that manufactures its own food from inorganic substances
- 7. Refers to an expected rise in the average global temperature during the 21st century
- 8. The spectrum used to measure absorption where various wavelengths of light represent different colours of light
- 10. Green pigment found in the chloroplasts of plants
- 12. Energy captured from light by chlorophyll and its accessory pigments drives the production of ATP
- 14. Any of the pigment molecules, typically yellow, red, and orange, that interact with chlorophylls inside chloroplasts when they absorb light primarily for photosynthesis
- 15. Plant that fixes CO2 to PEP using an enzyme PEP carboxylase. The result is oxaloacetate, a C4 molecule
- 16. Region within a chloroplast that surrounds the grans
- 18. Conversion process of inorganic carbon dioxide to organic compounds by living organisms
- 19. A stacked membranous structure within the chloroplasts
- 21. An enzyme that creates the energy storage molecule adenosine triphosphate or ATP
- 22. Each of a number of flattened sacs inside a chloroplast, bounded by pigmented membranes on which the light reactions of photosynthesis take place, and arranged in stacks or grana
- 24. Plant in which the mesophyll cells contain well-formed chloroplasts and are arranged in parallel layers