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Cells control their chemical environment using

Energy ATP


enzymes


The plasma membrane

Organic compounds are relatively rich in such

Chemical energy

ATP

Acts like an energy shuttle, storing energy from food

ATP stands for

Adenosine triphosphate

Metabolism

Total of all chemical reactions in an organism

Most mean olive reactions require the assurance if _________, proteins that speed up chemical reactions.

Enzymes

Enzymes lower the ______ ______ for chemical reactions

Activation energy

A specific reactant molecule

Substrate

The _____ ____ fits to the substrate and the enzyme changes shape slightly.

Active site

Induced fit

When the active site fits into the substrate and the enzyme changed shape slightly.

These can prevent metabolic reactions by binding to the active site.

Enzyme inhibitors

Some products of a reaction may inhibit the enzyme required for it's production, this is called

Feedback regulation

Transport proteins

Located in membranes and regulate the passage if materials into and out if the cell

The tendency for molecules of any substance to spread out into the available space

Diffusion

Diffusion if a substance across a membrane without the I out of energy

Passive transport

Substance diffuse their _______ _______, a region in which the substance's density changes.

Concentration gradient

Active needs

ATP

The diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane

Osmosis.

Hypertonic

Solution has a higher concentration of solute. Water is low.

Hypotonic

Solution has a lower concentration of solute. Water is high.

Isotonic

Solution had an equal confrontation of solute

Osmoregulation

Control of water balance within a cell or organism

Plasma membrane may pull away from the wall when in the process of

Plasmolysis

Requires energy to move molecules across a membrane

Active transport

Exocytosis

Secretion of large molecules within vesicles

Endocytosis

Takes material into a cell within vesicles that bud inward from the plasma membrane

A cell engulfs a particle and packages it within a food

Phagocytosis

A cell gulps droplets of fluid by forming tiny vesiclss

Pinocytosis

A cell takes in a very specific molecule

Receptor-meditated endocytosis

Signal transduction pathways

Relay the signal concert it to chemical forms that can function with the cell

Animals depend on plants to convert solar energy to

Chemical energy of sugars

Uses light energy from the sun to power a chemical process that makes organic molecules

Photosynthesis

Uses light energy from the sun to power a chemical process that makes organic molecules

Photosynthesis

The ingredients for photosynthesis are _____&______

Carbon dioxide and water

Cellular respiration occurs in the

Mitochondria

Cellular respiration

Generated ATP

Animals only perform

Cellular respiration

Plants perform

Photosynthesis and cellular respiration

A ________ process requires oxygen

Aerobic

Cellular respiration and ___________ are closely related.

Breathing

Cellular respiration can produce up to _________ molecules for each glucose molecule consumed.

38 ATP

There is an electron transfer to ________ which releases energy.

Oxygen

Cellular respiration is a controlled _____ __ _________

Fall of electrons

The first step is an electron acceptor called

NAD+

Deadly poison we talked about in class. Stops ATP production.

Cyanide.

Fermentation is the _______ harvest of food energy.

Anaerobic

In human muscle cells, ______ _____ is a by product.

Lactic acid

Yeast is a type of microscopic fungus that produces _____ and _____ instead of lactic acid.

CO2 and ethyl alcohol.

What process transforms light energy into chemical energy?

Photosynthesis.

Organisms that use photosynthesis are

Photosynthetic autotrophs.

The site of photosynthesis are

Chloroplasts

Inside chloroplasts are membranous sacs called ________

Thylakoids

Thylakoids are suspended in a thick fluid called what?

Stroma

Thylakoids are concentrated in stacks called ______

Grans

Electron transport chain

Involves a series of redox reactions


Ultimately leads to the production of large amounts of ATP.

The green color if chloroplasts is from ________, a light absorbing pigment.

Chlorophyll

Tiny pores in leaves where carbon dioxide enters and oxygen exits.

Stomata

Equation for photosynthesis

6CO2 + H2O >light energy> C6H12O6 + 6O2

Electrons are boosted ______ and added to carbon dioxide.

Uphill

During photosynthesis water is what?

Split.

Two stages of phitosynthesis

Light reactions


Calvin cycle

Describe the light reactions.

Converts solar energy to chemical energy.

Describe the Calvin cycle

Uses the products of the light reactions to make sugar from carbon dioxide.

Full range is radiation is called the __________ __________

Electromagnetic spectrum

Chlorophyll A

Participates directly in the light reactions.

Three stages of cellular respiration

Glycolysis


The citric acid cycle


Electron transport

Chlorophyll B

Participates indirectly in the light reactions

Carotenoids

Absorb and dissipate excessive light energy that light damage chlorophyll. Orange and yellow fall colors.

Light behaves as ______, discrete packets of energy

Photons

Photosystem

Group of chlorophyll and other molecules that function as a light gathering antenna.

Two types is photo systems cooperate in the light reactions

The water splitting photo system.


The NADPH producing photo system.

The Calvin cycle functions like a sugar factory within the _____ of a _______

Stroma, chloroplast.

A six carbon glucose molecule is split in half to form two molecules of ____ ____

Pyruvic Acid

Glycolysis uses two ATP molecules per glucose to ______ the six carbon glucose

Split

The citric acid cycle conpletes the _______ of _____

Breakdown, sugar

The citric acid cycle extracts the energy of sugar by breaking the acetic molecules all the way down to ____

CO2

The citric acid cycle forms _____ and ______

NADH and FADH2

The molecules of the electron transport chain are built into the inner membranes of what?

Inner membranes of mitochondria.

Hydrogen ions flow through what?

ATP synthase

Slow twitch fibers

Less power. Generates ATP using oxygen.

Fast twitch fibers

More power. Can generate ATP without using oxygen.