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| any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certain bacteria and protists |
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| an organism requiring organic compounds for its principal source of food. |
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| adenosine triphosphate: an ester of adenosine and triphosphoric acid, C 10 H 12 N 5 O 4 H 4 P 3 O 9 , formed esp. aerobically by the reaction of ADP and an orthophosphate during oxidation, or by the interaction of ADP and phosphocreatine or certain other substrates, and serving as a source of energy for physiological reactions, esp. muscle contraction |
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| the synthesis of complex organic materials, esp. carbohydrates, from carbon dioxide, water, and inorganic salts, using sunlight as the source of energy and with the aid of chlorophyll and associated pigments |
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| any substance whose presence in the tissues or cells of animals or plants colors them |
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| the green coloring matter of leaves and plants, essential to the production of carbohydrates by photosynthesis, and occurring in a bluish-black form, C 55 H 72 MgN 4 O 5 (chlorophyll a), and a dark-green form, C 55 H 70 MgN 4 O 6 |
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| a flattened sac or vesicle lined with a pigmented membrane that is the site of photosynthesis, in plants and algae occurring in interconnected stacks constituting a granum of the chloroplast, and in other photosynthesizing organisms occurring either singly or as part of the cell membrane or other structure. |
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| either of two pigment-containing systems, photosystem I or II, in which the light-dependent chemical reactions of photosynthesis occur in the chloroplasts of plants |
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| the matrix of a chloroplast, containing various molecules and ions. |
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| light dependant reactions |
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| chemical reactions that convert carbon dioxide and other compounds into glucose |
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| light independant reaction |
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| The energy released from ATP (produced during the light reactions) drives this metabolic pathway |
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| a series of reactions, occurring during photosynthesis, in which glucose is synthesized from carbon dioxide |
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| one of the structural units of a chloroplast in vascular plants, consisting of layers of thylakoids. |
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| either of two specialized epidermal cells that flank the pore of a stoma and usually cause it to open and close. |
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