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21 Cards in this Set
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Photosynthesis |
Conservation of light energy into chemical energy |
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Autotroph |
Organism that can sustain itself without eating other organism's or substances derived from other organism's |
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Heterotroph |
Organism's that live on compounds that are produced by other organism's |
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Mesophyll |
Inner tissue of leaf |
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Stomata |
Beings in CO2 exerts O2 |
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Vein |
Hallow rube, brings in water to leaves and glucose leaves through them |
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Stroma |
The space between the granum |
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Thylakoid |
Where light reactions take place, apart of the granum |
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Chlorophyll |
Green pigment |
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Photophosphorylation |
The synthesis of ATP from ADP and phosphate |
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Light reaction |
Takes place in the Thylakoid and membrane Inputs: light, water, NADP+ Outputs: NADPH, oxygen, ATP |
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Calvin cycle |
Takes place in the Stroma Inputs: CO2, ATP, NADPH, and ribulose bisphosphate Outouts: ADP, G3P, NADP+, Pi ADP, ribulose bisphosphate |
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Carbon fixation |
Process of inorganic carbon to organic compounds by living organism's |
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Photon |
A light particle |
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Carotenoids |
Yellow, orange, or red pigments |
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Photosystem II |
In taking light photons and water. Exciting the hydrogen electrons to absorb the energy from the photons |
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Photosystem I |
Taking in light photons to excite the same electrons again |
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3 steps of the Calvin cycle |
1) carbon fixation 2) Reduction 3) regeneration |
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Locus |
Specific location on the DNA where the genome is |
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Allele |
One or more alternative forms of a gene that araise by mutation and are found at the same place in a chromosome |
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Gene |
A unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristics |
