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| Organism that obtains energy from the food it consumes, also called a consumer |
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| Organism that can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce it's own food from inorganic compunds, also called a producer |
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| Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) |
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| One of the principal chemical compound that living things use to store and release energy |
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| Process by which plants and some other organisms use light energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and high energy carbohydrates such as sugars and starches |
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| principal pigment of plants and other photosynthetic organisms, captures light energy |
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| sac-like phjotosynthetic membrane found in chloroplasts |
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| light collecting units of chloroplast |
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| region outside of the tylakoid membranes in chloroplast |
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| NADP+ (Nirotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate) |
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| one of the carrier molecules that transfers high energy electrons from chlorophyll to other molecules |
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Light dependant reactions |
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| Reactions of photosynthesi that use energy from light to produce ATP and NADPH |
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| large protein that uses energy from H+ ions to bind ADP and a phosphate group together to produce ATP |
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| Reactions in photosynthesis in which energy from ATP and NADPH is used to build high energy compunds such as sugars |
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| A physician who concluded that the gain in the mass in a plant was mostly from water |
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| A minister who concluded that plants give off oxygen |
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A scientist who concluded that light is necessary for plants to produce oxygen |
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| Scientist who worked out the details of the Calvin Cycle |
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| Proposed that plants convert light energy into chemical energy |
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Pictured that oxygen liberated in photosynthesis comes from water |
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| used isotopes to determine that the oxygen liberated in photosynthesis comes from water |
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| described the process by which electrons are transferred from one molecule to another in the electron transform chain |
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