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- 5. an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide.
- 8. a colorless, odorless reactive gas, the chemical element of atomic number 8 and the life-supporting component of the air.
- 9. substance present in all living cells that provides energy for many metabolic processes and is involved in making RNA
- 10. a plastid that contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis takes place.
- 11. the site of the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis with the photosynthetic pigments embedded directly in the membrane
- 12. the process by which green plants and certain other organisms transform light energy into chemical energy.
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- 1. an organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.
- 2. the supportive tissue of an epithelial organ, tumor, gonad, etc., consisting of connective tissues and blood vessels.
- 3. the second half of photosynthesis that is carried out by all plants, some algae and a few bacteria
- 4. the natural compound present in green plants that gives them their color
- 6. he reaction which occurs as the first phase of photosynthesis, in which energy in the form of light is absorbed and converted to chemical energy in the form of ATP.
- 7. the main sugar found in your blood