Photosynthesis

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Photosynthesis

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Convert solar energy into chemical energy stored in sugar molecules or glucose.

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Photosynthesis

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It requires sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water—the materials needed in the chemical reaction.

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Glucose

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It is a component for energy production when once the process is complete plants release oxygen and carbohydrates.

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Mesophyll

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Photosynthesis occurs in the middle leaf layer called?

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Stomata

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Mesophyll that contains tiny openings where gases enter and exit the leaves called?

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Thylakoids

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Tiny, disc shape structures stacked on top of each other called?

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Granum

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A stack of thylakoids is called?

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Stroma

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Granum is surrounded by a space known as?

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Chlorophyll

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Embedded inside the thylakoids are green pigment molecules called _________, that absorbs light

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Light dependent and light independent reactions

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Photosynthesis occurs in two stages what are those?

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Light dependent stage

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Occurs in a thylakoid membrane of the chloroplast where the chlorophyll pigment absorbs the light energy from the sun and converts it into chemical energy together with water.

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Light independent stage

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Also known as calvin cycle, occurs in the stroma of the chloroplast.

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Chlorophyll a

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Organisms such as green plants algae and cyanobacteria contain the pigment _______________ that allows photosynthesis.

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Chlorophyll b and carotenoids

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This pigments are responsible for the red, orange, and yellow pigments.

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Photosystem

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This reaction begins in a group of pigments and proteins known as?

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Photosystem II and photosystem I

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In eukaryotes and some prokaryotes, photosystems exist as ____________and __________which are ordered based on the discovery rather than function.

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Photon

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The pigment molecule absorbs a single packet of light called?

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Electron transport chain

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Photosystem II transfers the free electrons along a series of proteins called?

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ATP and NADPH

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As more light is absorbed, the energy created is absorbed by two carrier molecules what are those?

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Chemiosmosis

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The movement of a hydrogen ions through ATP synthase is also known as?

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Light independent stage

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Is also known as the calvin cycle or calvin benson cycle.

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Light independent stage

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It consists of reactions that use the energy stored and carried in the light dependent reaction to build glucose.

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RuBisCO

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Catalyzes the reaction and combines carbon dioxide with a five carbon sugar molecule called ribulose biphosphate (RuBP)

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Carbon fixation

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This results in an unstable six carbon compound which is immediately broken down into two three carbon (3-C) compounds. This process is called?

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Six cycles

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How many cycles of calvin cycle to fix six carbon atoms from carbon dioxide?