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| Organisms that obtain food by consuming other living things. |
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| Organisms that make their own food. |
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| light-dependent reactions |
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| set of reactions in photosynthesis that use energy from light to produce ATP and NADPH |
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| light-independent reactions |
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| set of reactions in photosynthesis that do not require light; energy from ATP and NADPH is used to build high-energy compounds such as sugar; also called the Calvin cycle |
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| the light-independent reactions of photosynthesis in which energy from ATP and NADPH is used to build high-energy compounds such as suga |
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| adenosine triphosphate (ATP) |
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| compound used by cells to store and release energy |
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| process used by plants and other autotrophs to capture light energy and use it to power chemical reactions that convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and energy-rich carbohydrates such as sugars and starches |
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| light-absorbing molecules used by plants to gather the sun’s energy |
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| principal pigment of plants and other photosynthetic organisms |
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| saclike photosynthetic membranes found in chloroplasts |
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| fluid portion of the chloroplast; outside of the thylakoids |
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| (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate) carrier molecule that transfers high-energy electrons from chlorophyll to other molecules |
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| cluster of chlorophyll and proteins found in thylakoids |
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| series of electron carrier proteins that shuttle high-energy electrons during ATP-generating reactions |
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| cluster of proteins that span the thylakoid membrane and allow hydrogen ions (H+) to pass through it |
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