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What is the function of cholesterol? |
Cholesterol helps stabilixe the structure of the plasma membrane. |
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Glycoprotein |
Is composed of both a carbohydrate and a protein. |
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Diffusion |
Is the movement of particles down their concentration gradient. |
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Transport protein |
Allows solute molecules to enter the cell |
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Example of kinetic energy |
A space station orbiting earth, kinetic energy is energy of motion. |
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Conservation of energy |
Energy cannot be created or destroyed but can be converted from one form to another. |
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Chemical energy is a form of |
Potential energy |
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In your body, what process converts the chemical energy found in glucose into the chemical energy found in ATP? |
Cellular respiration |
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By-products of cellular respiration are |
Heat and water |
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Endergonic reactions |
Requires a net input of energy |
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In cells, what is usually the immediate source of energy for an endergonic reaction? |
ATP |
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The reaction ADP+P---> ATP is an |
Endergonic reaction |
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The energy for an endergonic reaction comes from a |
Exergonic reaction |
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What is the fate of the phosphate group that is removed when ATP is converted to ATP? |
It is acquired by a reactant in an endergonic reaction. |
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The products that contain more potential energy than the reactants is called |
Endergonic reaction |
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Energy Coupling |
The use of energy released from on exergonic reaction |
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PPP-R-A |
ATP |
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What type of reaction breaks the bonds that join the phosphate groups in an ATP molecule? |
Hydrolysis |
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Most enzymes are |
Proteins |
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Enzymes work by |
Reducing activation energy (EA) |
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An enzyme |
Is an organic catalyst |
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What namr is guven to the reactants in an enzymatically catalyzed reaction? |
Substrate |
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As a result of its involvement in a reaction, an enzyme |
Is unchanged |
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Photoautotrophs |
Produce the biospheres food supply |
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Chlorophyll is found in the________of the chloroplasts. |
Thylakoid membranes |
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Carbon dioxide enters a leaf through the |
Stomata. |
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Chlorophyll molecules are found in which part of the chloroplast? |
Grana |
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The calvin cycle occurs in the |
Stroma |
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Electrons (with accompanying protons) are added to CO2 during |
Photosynthesis |
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The light reactions of photosynthesis use _______ and produce. |
Water |
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Where does oxygen gas come from? |
Oxygen is released when watrt is broken down. |
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The light reactions produce |
Oxygen, NADPH, and ATP |
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The thylakoid membranes bring together the components necessary to carry out the |
Light reactions |
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Energy production per glucose molecule through the citric acid cycle is |
2 ATP, 6 NADH, 2 FADH2 |
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Once the citric acid cycle had been completed, most of the usable energy from the original glucose molecule is in the form of |
NADH |
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How many molecules of ATP are gained by Substrate-level phosphorylation? |
4 ATP |
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Muscle tissues make lactic acid from pyruvate so that you can |
Regenerate (oxidized) NAD+ |
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Equation for the cellular respiration of glucose is |
C6H12O6 + 6O2 --> 6CO2 + 6H2O + energy |
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For each glucose that enters glycolysis, ____ NADH enter the electron transport chain. |
10 |
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In cellular respiration most ATP molecules are produced by |
Oxidative phosphorylation |
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The final respiration electron acceptor of cellular respiration is |
Oxygen |