Photosynthesis & Leaf Anatomy

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Across
  1. 3. Scientific term for a cell part that has a specific function.
  2. 8. Organelle that carries out photosynthesis.
  3. 12. The light-dependent reactions take place in the _______________ of the thylakoid.
  4. 13. Plants and other living organisms use the matter in food for growth and repair. This is called _____________.
  5. 15. Regulate the opening and closing of stomata
  6. 16. Xylem is located at the top or bottom of a vascular bundle?
  7. 18. The products of the light-dependent reaction are _________ and oxygen.
  8. 19. Moves food
  9. 21. Pigment that absorbs light energy from the sun.
  10. 23. Middle layer of a leaf
  11. 25. Plant cells that protect the leaf, covered in waxy coating
  12. 28. Chloroplasts have their own DNA and a double membrane. This is ____________ that supports the theory.
  13. 29. In the balanced equation for photosynthesis, glucose and oxygen are the _____________.
  14. 31. The particle of light.
  15. 32. Waxy coating that makes leaves waterproof
Down
  1. 1. When carbon dioxide moves into a leaf and oxygen moves out of a leaf.
  2. 2. Tubes that move food and water are located in a _________________.
  3. 4. Allows for the accumulation of water vapor, carbon dioxide and oxygen.
  4. 5. A stack of thylakoids.
  5. 6. Fluid inside of chloroplasts that surround thylakoids, calvin cycle takes place here
  6. 7. All __________ parts of a plant will/can photosynthesize.
  7. 9. In the balanced equation for photosynthesis, water and carbon dioxide are the _____________.
  8. 10. Which epidermal layer has more stomata….upper or lower?
  9. 11. The product of the light-independent reaction is ____________.
  10. 13. Phloem is located at the top or bottom of a vascular bundle?
  11. 14. The theory that the original chloroplast was a photosynthesizing bacterium.
  12. 17. Structure that contains chlorophyll.
  13. 20. In photosynthesis light energy is converted to _______ energy.
  14. 22. Moves water
  15. 24. Cells in mesophyll where most of the photosynthesis occurs
  16. 26. The movement of molecules from high concentration to low concentration.
  17. 27. An energy carrying molecule made in the light-dependent reaction.
  18. 30. Cells that store sugars made in photosynthesis
  19. 32. The light-independent reaction incorporates ____________ into glucose molecules.