Across
- 3. compound used by cells to store and release energy
- 5. an enzyme for the synthesis of ATP
- 7. organelle in plants that captures energy from sunlight and converts it into chemical energy
- 10. reactions in photosynthesis that use energy from light to produce ATP and NADPH
- 13. cluster of chlorophyll and proteins found in the thylakoids
- 15. principal pigment of plants and other photosynthetic organisms
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- 1. process used by plants and other autotrophs to capture light energy
- 2. organisms that make their own food from capturing sunlight
- 4. carrier molecule that transfers high energy electrons from chlorophyll to other molecules
- 6. light-absorbing molecules used by plants to gather the suns energy
- 8. organism that obtains food by consuming other living things (consumers)
- 9. light-independent reactions turn ATP and NADPH into sugar
- 11. saclike photosynthetic membranes found in chloroplasts
- 12. fluid portion of the chloroplast
- 14. series of electron carrier proteins that transport electrons during ATP-generating reactions