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26 Cards in this Set
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Autotroph
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"feed themselves"; make their own organic molecules from inorganic raw materials
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Bundle Sheath Cells
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cells arranges into tightly packed around the veins of a leaf
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Chlorophyll
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green pigment that absorbs the light energy that drives photosynthesis
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Calvin Cycle
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carbon dioxide is incorporated into existing orgnaic compounds by carbon fixation and then reduced to from carbohydrates
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Carbon fixation
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reducing of carbon to organic compounds by living organisms
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Carotenoids
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organic pigment
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cyclic electron flow
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electrons excited from p700 are passed from Fd to the cytochrome complex and back to p700; travels in a circle
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C3 plants
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have 3 carbons
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c4 plants
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have 4 carbons
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CAM
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carbon fixation pathwas that doesn not structurally seperate carbon fixation from the calvin cycle
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G3P
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product of the calvin cycle
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Heterotroph
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consumers
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light reaction
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solar energy is converted to chemical energy
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mesophyll
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tissue found in the interior of the leafs
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mesophyll cells
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cells that lay between the upper and lower layers of a leaf
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NADP+
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electron adaptor
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noncyclic electron flow
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pass continously from water to NADP+; not in a circle
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PEP carboxylase
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enzyme used from 4 carbon compound
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Photosynthesis
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light energy from sun is converted into chemical energy
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photophosphorylation
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process of creating ATP
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Photon
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light actas as discrete particles
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Photorespiration
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2 carbon compound leaves the chloroplast and is broken down to release CO2
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reaction center
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complex where proteins are assembled together
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rubisco
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exzyme involved in carbon fixation
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spectrophotometer
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measures amount of light of different wavelengths
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stomata
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outer layer of a leaf
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