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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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| Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) |
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| Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) One of the principal chemical compounds that living things use to store and release energy. |
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| Plants use the energy of sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into high-energy carbohydrates -sugar and starches and oxygen a wast product. |
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| Plants gather the sun's energy with light absorbing molecules. |
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| Principal pigment of plants and other photosynthetic organisms; captures light energy. |
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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. |
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| NADP+ (Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide Phosphate) |
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| 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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| Produce oxygen gas and convert ADP and NADP+ into the energy carriers ATP and NADPH. |
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| Large protein that uses energy from H+ ions to bind ADP and a phosphate grop together to produce ATP. |
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| Plants use the energy that ATP and NADPH from the light-dependent reactions to produce high-energy sugars. |
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