What are the light-absorbing compounds that photosynthetic organisms use to capture sunlight energy?

What is the principal pigment found in green plants?

In what regions of the visible spectrum do chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b absorb light very well?

What color of light does chlorophyll reflect, making leaves appear green?

What is the primary role of pigments in photosynthesis?

What are accessory pigments, like carotene, responsible for?

Why do leaves of some plants change color in the fall?

In plants and other photosynthetic eukaryotes, where does photosynthesis take place?

What are the saclike chlorophyll-containing membranes inside a chloroplast called?

What is a stack of thylakoids known as?

What is the fluid-filled portion of the chloroplast located outside of the thylakoids?

How does chlorophyll make photosynthesis work?

What are the two reactants in the overall equation for photosynthesis?

What are the two main products of the overall photosynthesis equation?

What is the overall process of photosynthesis?

What is the chemical formula for the 6-carbon sugar produced in photosynthesis?

What gas is released as a product of photosynthesis?

Plants use the sugars produced in photosynthesis for what purpose?

What are the two distinct sets of reactions involved in photosynthesis?

What do the light-dependent reactions require the direct involvement of?

Where in the chloroplast do the light-dependent reactions take place?

What molecule is formed from ADP during the light-dependent reactions?

What molecule provides the low-energy electrons for the light-dependent reactions?

What happens to the oxygen atoms from the water molecules that are split?

What is the electron carrier NADP+ converted to in the light-dependent reactions?

What is transferred to NADP+ to convert it to NADPH?

What is the high-energy electron carrier molecule produced by the light-dependent reactions?

Where do the light-independent reactions take place?

What is another name for the light-independent reactions?

What molecules, produced in the light-dependent reactions, are used to power the light-independent reactions?

What molecule is taken from the atmosphere and used to build sugars in the light-independent reactions?

What is the main product of the light-independent reactions?

What do the light-independent reactions produce?

How are the light-dependent and light-independent reactions related?

What is the ultimate purpose of the two sets of photosynthesis reactions working together?

What is the singular form of "grana"?

What does the prefix "chloro-" in chlorophyll and chloroplast refer to?

What form does energy from the sun take when it travels to Earth?

What is the visible spectrum?