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| 6133229835 | photoautotrophs | organisms that produce their own food using light energy - plants, protists, and algae |  | 0 |
| 6133229836 | mesophyll | inner tissue of a leaf, contain many chloroplasts |  | 1 |
| 6133229837 | stroma | fluid that fills the inner area of a chloroplast |  | 2 |
| 6133229838 | thylakoids | found in stacks in the chloroplast where the light reactions occur |  | 3 |
| 6133229839 | grana | stacks of thylakoids |  | 4 |
| 6133229840 | chlorophyll | pigment that absorbs light energy to power the light reactions of photosynthesis |  | 5 |
| 6133229841 | stomata | pores in the epidermis of a leaf that allow water to leave the plant and carbon dioxide to enter it |  | 6 |
| 6133229842 | light reactions | reactions that use carbon dioxide and water to create ATP and NADPH for use in the calvin cycle |  | 7 |
| 6133229843 | NADP+ | an electron acceptor that is reduced and is used to fuel the calvin cycle |  | 8 |
| 6133229844 | calvin cycle | the series of reactions where ATP and NADPH are used to form G3P which is then used to form glucose and other organic molecules including amino acids and nucleic acids | 9 | |
| 6133229845 | carbon fixation | reactions that use CO2 to make glucose |  | 10 |
| 6133229846 | absorption spectrum | the range of wavelengths absorbed by a particular pigment |  | 11 |
| 6133229847 | chloroplast | the organelle where photosynthesis takes place |  | 12 |
| 6133229848 | products of light reactions | NADPH + ATP + O2 | 13 | |
| 6133229849 | reactants of calvin cycle | NADPH + ATP + CO2 | 14 | |
| 6133229850 | water | this molecule splits and allows for an electron to be bumped up to the primary electron acceptor in photosystem II |  | 15 |
| 6133229851 | photosystem II | the location of water splitting |  | 16 |
| 6133229852 | p700 | this is the special chlorophyll that is located in photosystem I |  | 17 |
| 6133229853 | p680 | this is the special chlorophyll that is located in photosystem II |  | 18 |
| 6133229854 | chemoautotroph | organisms that produce their own food using inorganic materials - thermophilic bacteria |  | 19 |
| 6133229855 | guard cells | responsible for opening and closing stomata | 20 | |
| 6133229856 | photorespiration | process where o2 gets substituted for CO2 in the calvin cycle | 21 | |
| 6133287031 | RuBisCo | The enzyme that catalyzes the first step of the Calvin cycle (the addition of CO2 to RuBP). The most abundant protein on Earth! |  | 22 |
| 6133294401 | G3P | The molecule that is made from the Calvin Cycle; glucose is formed when two of these molecules combine. |  | 23 |
| 6133306175 | Electron Transport Chain | A sequence of electron carrier molecules (membrane proteins) that shuttle electrons during the redox reactions that release energy used to make ATP. | 24 | |
| 6133310165 | ATP Synthase | Large protein that uses energy from H+ ions to bind ADP and a phosphate group together to produce ATP |  | 25 |
| 6133312952 | Chemiosmosis | Process by which a Hydrogen pump pumps protons into the thylakoid membrane. H+ passively flows through the ATP synthase which leads to the creation of ATP. |  | 26 |
