8.1~8.2 Vocab List

8.1 Section Vocabulary
Chloroplast: the cellular organelle where photosynthesis takes place
Chlorophyll: A type of chemical compounds that chloroplasts contain, which give these organelles a green color. All green parts visible contain chlorosplats and can carry out photosynthesis
Stroma: A thick fluid of the inner meembranes of a chloroplast which has a inner and outer membrane, similiar to the mitochondria's matrix.
Thylakoids: Suspended in the stroma are many disk-shaped sacs. They each have a membrane surrounding an interiro space, arranged in stacks called grana.
Light reactions: Convert the erngy in sunlight to chemical energy
Calvin Cycle: makes sugar from the atoms in carbon dioxide plus the hydrogen ions and high energy electrons carried by NADPH. the enzymes for the Calvin cycle are located outside rge rgtkakoids and dissolved in the stroma.
8.2 Section Vocabulary
Wavelength: the distance between two adjacent wave
Electromagnetic spectrum: The range of types of electromagnetic energy, from the very short wavelengths of gamma rays to the ver lkong wavelenths of radio waves
Pigments: a substance's color is due to chemical compounds
Paper chromatography: a laboratory technique which allows people to obersce rge dufferent pigments in a green leaf
Photosystems: within the thylakoid membrane, chlorphyll and other molecules are arranged in clusters, each containing a few hundred pigments molecules including chlorphyll.