Pre-AP Ch. 8
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| organism that can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce its own food from inorganic compounds | ||
| organism that obtains energy from the food it consumes | ||
| one of the principle chemical compounds that living things use to store and release energy | ||
| process by which plants and some other organisms use light energy to power chemical reactions that convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and high energy carbohydrates such as sugars and starches | ||
| Light-absorbing molecule | ||
| green pigment in plants that absorbs light energy used to carry out photosynthesis | ||
| flattened sac of membrane in chloroplast that contains chlorophyll and other pigments that carry out photosynthesis | ||
| light-collecting units of the chloroplast | ||
| region outside thylakoid membranes in chloroplasts | ||
| carrier molecules that tranfers high engergy electron from chrrophyll to other molecules | ||
| reactions of photosynthesis that use energy from light to produce ATP and NADPH | ||
| protein structure in cell mitochondria that uses energy from H+ ions to convert ADP to ATP | ||
| uses ATP and NADPH from the light dependent reactions to produce high energy sugars, no light |