photosynthesis crossword

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  1. 2. microscope holes in the underside of leaves. Allows oxygen to escape, and carbon dioxide to enter. Surrounded by guard cells, which open and close stomata
  2. 4. one billionth of a mater (1/1,000,000,000),used to measure the wavelength
  3. 6. The cells and tissues that support and give structure to organs, glands, or other tissues in the body.
  4. 8. organelle where photosynthesis occurs.
  5. 10. membranes inside where ‘the light-reactions’ occur with the electron transport chain
  6. 12. where water and sunlight are used. A chemical known as NADPH is produced. NADPH is used in the calvin cycle
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  1. 1. the colors of light that the human eye can see
  2. 3. a pigment that gives plants their green color
  3. 5. Organisms that go through photosynthesis
  4. 7. the cycle of chemical reactions where the carbon from the carbon cycle is fixed into sugars. It occurs in the chloroplast of the plant cell.
  5. 9. colors that absorb light. Produces energy from the sunlight it absorbs
  6. 11. the stacks of thylakoids embedded in the stroma of a chloroplast.