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20 Cards in this Set
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Autotroph |
Organism that can produce its own food |
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Heterotroph |
Organism that obtains energy from the foods it consumes |
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Adenosine Triphosphate |
One of the principal chemical compounds that living things use to store energy |
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Photosynthesis |
Using sunlight to convert water & carbon dioxide into oxygen and sugar |
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Pigment |
Light-absorbing colored molecule |
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Chlorophyll |
Pigments of plants that captures light energy |
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Thykaloid |
Saclike body in chloroplasts |
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Stroma |
Region outside the thykaloid membranes in chloroplasts |
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NADP+ |
One of the carrier molecules that transfers high-energy electrons from chlorophyll to other molecules |
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Light-dependent reactions |
Reactions of photosynthesis that use energy from light to produce AGO and NADPH |
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ATP Synthase |
Large protein that uses energy from H+ kind to bind ADP and a phosphate group together to produce ATP |
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Calvin Cycle |
Energy from ATP and NADPH is used to build sugars |
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Glycosis |
A molecule of glucose is broken into two molecules of pyruvic acid |
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Krebs Cycle |
Pyruvic Acid is broken down into carbon dioxide in a series of energy-extracting reactions |
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Electron Transport Chain |
High-energy electrons flow the Krebs cycle are used to convert ADP into ATP |
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Cell Respiration |
Proces that releases energy by breaking down good molecules in the presence of oxygen |
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Fermentation |
Process by which cells release energy energy in the absence of oxygen |
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Anaerobic |
Without oxygen |
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Aerobic |
With oxygen |
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NAD+ |
Electron carrier involved in glycosis |
