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| organism that can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce its own food from inorganic compounds; also called a producer |
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| organism that obtains energy from the foods it consumes; also called a consumer |
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| one of the principal chemical componds that living things use to store and release energy |
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| overall process in which sunlight is used to convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and high energy sugars |
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| any substance whose presence in the tissues or cells of animals or plants color them |
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| light collecting unit in a chloroplast; principal pigment of plants and other photosynthetic organisms |
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| saclike photosynthetic membrane found in chloroplasts |
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| light collecting units of the chloroplast |
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| region outside the thylakoid membranes in chloroplasts |
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| (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate) one of the carrier molecules that transfers high-energy electrons from chlorophyll to other molecules |
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| light-dependent reactions |
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| reactions of photosynthesis 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 of photosythesis in which energy from ATP and NADPH is used to build high-energy compounds such as sugars |
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