Across
- 2. a green pigment, present in all green plants and in cyanobacteria, responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis. Its molecule contains a magnesium atom held in a porphyrin ring.
- 4. type of plastid—a round, oval, or disk-shaped body that is involved in the synthesis and storage of foodstuffs
- 7. a substance that enters into and is altered in the course of a chemical reaction.
- 9. greenleaf dustrubutes water through the plant
- 10. A product is a substance that is present at the end of a chemical reaction
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- 1. stomata, also called stoma, plural stomata or stoma, any of the microscopic openings or pores in the epidermis of leaves and young stems.
- 3. the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water. Photosynthesis in plants generally involves the green pigment chlorophyll and generates oxygen as a byproduct.
- 5. energy that is transferred by electromagnetic radiation
- 6. the vascular tissue in plants that conducts water and dissolved nutrients upward from the root and also helps to form the woody element in the stem.
- 8. the vascular tissue in plants that conducts sugar and other metabolic products downward from the leave