PHOTOSYNTHESIS

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  1. 1. /plant pigments responsible for bright red, yellow and orange hues in many fruits and vegetables.
  2. 4. /organisms that carry out photon capture to acquire energy.
  3. 5. /distance between corresponding points of two consecutive waves.
  4. 10. /the inner tissue (parenchyma) of a leaf, containing many chloroplasts.
  5. 12. /enzyme involved in the first major step of carbon fixation.
  6. 16. /organism that depends on organic matter already produced by other organisms for its nourishment.
  7. 17. /is a complex of several proteins, pigments and other co-factors that together execute the primary energy conversion reactions of photosynthesis.
  8. 18. /the phosphorylation of ADP to form ATP using the energy of sunlight.
  9. 20. /process by which some organisms, such as certain bacteria, use chemical energy to produce carbohydrates.
  10. 21. /the decomposition or separation of molecules by the action of light.
  11. 23. /organisms that carry out photosynthesis.
  12. 25. /the rate of a physiological activity plotted against wavelength of light.
  13. 26. /type of elementary particle, the quantum of the electromagnetic field including electromagnetic radiation such as light, and the force carrier for the electromagnetic force.
  14. 27. /organisms that obtain energy by the oxidation of electron donors in their environments.
  15. 28. /the set of chemical reactions that take place in chloroplasts during photosynthesis.
  16. 29. /the stacks of thylakoids embedded in the stroma of a chloroplast.
  17. 30. /the colorless fluid surrounding the grana within the chloroplast.
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  1. 1. /organism which derives its energy from chemicals, and needs to consume other organisms in order to live.
  2. 2. /the movement of ions across a semipermeable membrane, down their electrochemical gradient.
  3. 3. /a respiratory process in many higher plants by which they take up oxygen in the light and give out some carbon dioxide, contrary to the general pattern of photosynthesis.
  4. 6. /organism that cannot manufacture its own food and instead obtains its food and energy by taking in organic substances, usually plant or animal matter.
  5. 7. /a spectrum of electromagnetic radiation transmitted through a substance, showing dark lines or bands due to absorption of specific wavelengths.
  6. 8. /a continuous aqueous phase enclosed by the thylakoid membrane.
  7. 9. /the process by which plants, some bacteria and some protistans use the energy from sunlight to produce glucose from carbon dioxide and water.
  8. 11. /organelles found in plant cells and eukaryotic algae that conduct photosynthesis;absorb sunlight and use it in conjunction with water and carbon dioxide gas to produce food for the plant.
  9. 13. /array of protein and chlorophyll molecules embedded in the thylakoid membrane of plants, which transfer light energy to one chlorophyll a molecule at the reaction center of a photosystem.
  10. 14. /a layer or region of compactly arranged cells surrounding a vascular bundle in a plant.
  11. 15. /three carbon molecule.
  12. 19. /tiny opening or pore that is used for gas exchange.
  13. 22. /each of a number of flattened sacs inside a chloroplast, bounded by pigmented membranes on which the light reactions of photosynthesis take place, and arranged in stacks or grana.
  14. 24. /an enzyme that creates the energy storage molecule adenosine triphosphate.