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Photoautotroph |
Any organism that derives its energy for food synthesis from light and is capable of using carbon dioxide |
Photoautotroph is an organism |
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Photosynthesis |
The complex process by which carbon dioxide, water, and certain inorganic salts are converted into carbohydrates |
Photosynthesis need a sunlight |
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Thylakoids |
A flattened sac or vesicle lined with a pigmented membrane that is the site of photosynthesis |
Thylakoids is sited in photosynthesis |
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Grana |
One of the structural units of a chloroplast im vascular plants |
Grana is a vascular plants |
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Stroma |
The supporting framework or matrix of a cell |
Stroma is a matrix of a cell |
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Chloroplast |
A plastid containing chlorophyll |
Chloroplast contains chlorophyll |
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Chlorophyll |
The green coloring matter of leaves, and plants, essential to the production of carbohydrates by photosynthesis |
Chlorophyll is a green coloring matter |
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Light reactions |
As light reacts, photosynthesis occurs |
Light reactions occurs photosynthesis |
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Calvin cycle |
A series of reactions, occuring during photosynthesis in which glucose is synthesized from carbon dioxide |
Calvin Cycle comes from carbon dioxide |
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NADPH |
The chemically reduced from NADP |
NADPH comes from NADP |
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PGAL |
Chemical compound that serves as an intermediate in several central metabolic pathways in all organisms |
PGAL intermediate pathways in organisms |
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Photoinhibitation |
Light - induced reduction in the photosynthetic capacity of a plant, alga, or cyanobacterium |
Photoinhibitation induces reaction in photosynthetic |
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Saturation point |
The point at which a substance will receive no more of another substance in solution |
Saturation point receives another substance |
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Limiting factors |
An environment factor that tends to limit population size |
Limiting factors limit population size |
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Rubisco |
A plant protein which fixes carbon in photosynthetic organisms that accepts oxygen in place of carbon dioxide |
Rubisco is a plant protein |
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Photorespiration |
The oxidation of carbohydrates in many higher plants in which they get oxygen from light |
Photorespiration is an oxidation of carbohydrates |
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C4 plants |
A plant in which the CO2 is first fixed into a compound containing four carbon atoms before entering the Calvin Cycle of photosynthesis |
Calvin Cycle of photosynthesis |
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Stomates |
Formation from stomata |
Formation from stomata is a stomates |
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Aerobic Cell Respiration |
Set of metabolic reactions and processes that take place in the cells of organisms to convert biochemical energy from nutrients |
It is a set of metabolic reactions |
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Chemoautotroph |
Organisms that obtain energy by the oxidation of electron donors in their environments |
Chemoautotroph obtain energy by the oxidation |
