Across
- 2. a biochemical mechanism in plants by which chlorophyll absorbs light energy for photosynthesis
- 4. the supportive tisse of a epithelial organ, tumor, gonad
- 5. a green pigment present in all green plants
- 6. transport chain a cluster of proteins that transfer electrons through a membrane.
- 7. the reaction of something, especially the iris of the eye
- 8. any of a class of mainly yellow orange or red fat soluable pigment.
- 9. the process which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods
- 11. a metabolic pathway where co2 is first added to the phosphoenolpyruvate by the enzyme
- 12. An organism that can produce its own food
- 13. a carbon fixation that evolve in some plants as an adaptation to arid conditions that allow a plant to photosynthesize during the day, but only exchange gases at night.
- 14. the natural coloring of animal or plant tissue
- 18. a biological process where in ions are moved to the other side of the membrane.
Down
- 1. when a photon raises a chlorophyll electron to a higher energy level that energy and ultimately an electron has to go somewhere else
- 3. an organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances
- 5. A plastid that contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis occurs.
- 10. any of the minute pores in the epidermis of the lead or stem of a plant
- 13. a series of chemical reactions that occurs as part of the dark reactions of photosynthesis
- 15. singular form of grana
- 16. each of a number flattened sacs inside a chloroplast
- 17. the process wherein photosynthetic organisms turn inorganic carbon into organic compounds