Photosynthesis

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Across
  1. 3. A reaction in which a complex molecule is broken down to simpler ones, involving the addition of water
  2. 6. A green pigment responsible for light capture in photosynthesis in algae and plants
  3. 10. The reaction which converts light energy into chemical energy
  4. 11. A yellow, orange or red plant pigment used as an accessory pigment in photosynthesis
  5. 12. The splitting of water using light energy
  6. 13. The process by which bacteria uses energy from inorganic substances are used to make sugars
  7. 14. A pore in the epidermis of the leaf, bounded by two guard cells
  8. 15. "Packets" of energy that travel in waves which compose light
  9. 16. An organism that can trap an inorganic carbon source using energy from light or from chemicals
Down
  1. 1. An organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources
  2. 2. A cycle of reactions in photosynthesis in which carbon dioxide is fixed into carbohydrate
  3. 4. A pigment that is not essential to photosynthesis but which absorbs light of different wavelengths and passes the energy to chlorophyll a
  4. 5. Adenine diphosphate
  5. 7. A cluster of light-harvesting accessory pigments surrounding a primary pigment or reaction center
  6. 8. The product formed from photosynthesis which plants use as food
  7. 9. The matrix of chloroplast in which the light independent reactions photosynthesis occur
  8. 13. photosynthetic organelle in eukaryotes