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| What does adenosine triphosphate consist of? |
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| adenine, ribose, and 3 phosphate groups. |
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| How can ATP easily release and store energy? |
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| by breaking and re-forming the bonds between its phosphate group |
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| what happes during the process of photosynthesis? |
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| plants convert the energy of sunlight into chemical energy stored in the bonds of carbohydrates. |
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| compound used by cells to store and release energy. |
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| Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) |
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| organism that is able to captyre 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 food by consuming other living things; also called consumer |
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| process used by plants and other autotrophs to capture light energy and use it too power chemical reactions that convert carbpn dioxide and water into oxygen and energy-rich carbohydrates such as sugars and starches. |
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| what do Photosynthetic organisms capture energy from? |
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| a compound that can accept a pair of high-energy electons and transfer them, along with most of their energy, to another molecule. |
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| wht uses the energy from sunlight to convert water and carbin dioxide (reactants) into high-energy sugars and oxygen (products). |
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| what uses energy from sunlight to produce oxygen and convert ADP and NADP+ into the energy carriers ATP and NADPH |
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| light-dependent reactions |
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| ATP and NADPH from the light-dependent reactions are used to produce high-energy sugars. |
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| light-independent reactions |
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| What are the most important fatctors that affect photosynthesis? |
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| temp., light intensity, and the availability of water. |
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| cluster of proteins that span the cell membrane and allow hygrogen ions (H+) to pass through it |
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| light-independent reactions of photosynthesis in which energy from ATP and NADPH is used to build high-energy compounds of sugar. |
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| principle pigment of plants and other photosynthetic organisms |
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| series of electron carrier proteins that shuttle high-energy electrons during ATP-generating reactions. |
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| set of reaction in photosynthesis that do not requite light; energy from ATP and NADPH is used to build high-energy compounds sush as sugar; also called the Calvin cycle. |
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| set of reactions in photosynthesis that use energy from light to produce ATP and NADPH |
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| light-dependent reactions |
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| what does NADP+ stand for? |
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| Nicotinamide adenine dinecleotide phosphate |
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| carrier molecule that transfers high-energy electrons from chlorophyll to other molecules |
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| light-absorbing molecule used by plants to gather the suns energy |
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| cluster of chlorophyll and proteins found in thylakoids |
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| fluid portion of the chloroplast, outside of the thylakoids |
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| saclike photosynthetic membranes found in chloroplasts. |
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