chapter 7 Flashcards
autotroph
make their own food
heterotroph
eat their food
photoautotroph
self-energy using light
chemoautotroph
use chemical to make ATP
palisade mesophyll
where photosynthesis occurs (top)
spongy mesophyll
where photosynthesis occurs (bottom)
stoma (stomata)
holes on top of leaf used for gas exchange
guard cells
two bean shaped cells that surround a stoma and control input and output of gases by regulating the opening and closing of the stoma pores
xylem (vein/vascular bundle)
very very skinny tubes that move water up
phloem (vein/vascular bundle)
tubes that move glucose from leaves to the rest of the plants
parts of the chloroplast
granum (grana), thylakoid, stroma
granum (grana)
stacks of thylakoids containing chlorophyll
thylakoid
the site of light-dependent reactions
stroma
the fluid filling up the inner space of the chloroplast
redox reactions in photosynthesis
H20 is oxidized, CO2 is reduced
photon
particles of light, smallest unit of light
electromagnetic spectrum
the spectrum of wavelengths
visible light
photosynthetic organisms use a small portion of electromagnetic spectrum
wavelengths that are absorbed
red and blue
wave lengths that are reflected
green and yellow
two reactions of photosynthesis
light dependent reactions and calvin cycle
calvin cycle
occurs in stroma and synthesizes glucose
light dependent reactions
occurs in thylakoid and converts light energy to chemical energy
photosystem II
contains accessory pigments molecules and chlorophyll