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Aerobic |
Pathway of cellular respiration that require oxygen |
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Alcoholic fermentation |
Fermentation involving yeast and a few other microorganisms |
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Anaerobic |
No oxygen is used in order to release energy from food molecules |
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Calorie |
Is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius |
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Cellular respiration |
The process that releases energy by breaking down glucose and other food molecules in the presences of oxygen |
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Electron transport chain |
Uses the high energy electron from the Krebs cycle to convert ADP to ATP |
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Fermentation |
The process that release energy from food molecules by producing ATP in the absence of oxygen |
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Glycolysis |
A pathway that split a glucose molecules into two pyruvic acid molecules |
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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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Lactic acid fermentation |
Fermentation that occurs in your muscles during rapid exercise |
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NAD+ |
Electron carrier |
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ADP |
Adenosine diphosphate :ADP has two phosphate group and when a phosphate group is added with energy ,it becomes ATP |
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ATP |
Adenosine triphophate :a chemical compound that a cell uses to store and release energy |
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ATP synthase |
Is an enzyme that allows H+ ions to pass through the cell membrane |
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Autotroph |
Produces organisms that makes it's own food |
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Calvin cycle |
The second set of reaction in photosynthesis that uses ATP and NADPH from the light dependent reactions to produce high energy sugars |
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Chlorophyll |
A green pigment that is found in plants |
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Heterotroph |
Consumer, organisms that obtain energy from the food they eat |
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Light dependent reactions |
The first set of reactions in photosynthesis that produces oxygen gas and converts ADP and NADP+ to energy carriers |
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NADP+ |
a carrier compound that accept and holds 2 high energy electrons along with a hydrogen ion |
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Pigment |
Light absorbing molecules |
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Photosynthesis |
Organisms that uses the energy from sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into high energy carbohydrates as glucose |
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Photosystem |
Light collecting units found in chloroplast |
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Products |
Elements or compound produced by a chemical reaction |
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Reactant |
Element or compound that enters into a chemical reaction |
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Stroma |
The region outside the thylakoid membranes |
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Thlakoid |
Saclike photosynthetic membrane found in chloroplast |
