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| Plants use energy from sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into high energy carbohydrates, sugars, starches, oxygen, and waste products. |
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| use sunlight to make and store energy through photosynthesis |
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| use inorganic chemicals to obtain energy through chemosynthesis |
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| consume other organisms for energy |
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| use cellular respiration to release energy from materials they eat |
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| break down once living organic material |
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Light Energy
Heat energy
chemical energy |
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| Energy waves and particles get released from the sun |
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| measured in nanometers and is the distance between repeating units of a propagating wave of a given frequency. |
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| chemical bonds are broken |
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| chemical bonds are formed |
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| surrounds the chloroplast |
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| saclike structures that contain pigment |
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| requires the direct energy of light that splits water molecules to make energy carrier molecules that are used in the second process |
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| adding a phosphate and ATP and NADPH made from carbon diioxide go to light independent reactions |
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| Light independent reaction |
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| (Calvin-benson Cycle) occurs when the products of light reaction and Co2 are used to form C-C covalent bonds of carbohydrates |
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| consists of Adenine a 5-carbon sugar called ribose and three phosphate groups |
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| plants gather the suns energy with light absorbing molecules |
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| the plants principle pigmment that reflects green light |
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| proteins in the thylakoid membrane that organize chlorophyll and other pigments into clusters |
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| Plants that use 4 carbons |
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| Sugarcane, corn and crabgrass |
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