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20 Cards in this Set
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Energy |
The ability to do work |
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Cellular respiration |
Activities include growth, repair, active transport, and reproduction |
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Autotroph |
Organisms that make their own food |
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Heterotrophs |
Cannot make its own food (you are one) |
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ATP |
In cells, energy is stored |
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ATPase |
Enzymes that breaks off a phosphate group from the ATP molecule |
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Producer |
Make energy for themselves |
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Sun |
Is the number on source is energy either directly or indirectly |
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Sunlight |
To grow and help make their own energy |
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Photo-synthesis |
“Putting together with light” |
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Stomata |
Small opening in the leaves of the plant |
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Chlorophyll |
Has the ability to absorb he energy from sunlight |
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Thylakoids |
Disk-shaped structures in the chloroplasts that actually contains the pigment |
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Stroma |
Gel-like substance surrounding the thylakoids |
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Grana |
The stacks of thylakoids |
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NADPH |
Is an alternate molecule that takes sunlight and turns it into chemical energy |
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Photosystem |
(First step) pigments absorb light and transfer it to electrons which enter the electron transport chain |
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Electron transport chain |
Series is molecules that accept/ donate electrons easily |
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Photosystem 1 |
(Step 2) electrons here are added to the NADP+ and NADPH |
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Chemosythesis |
Uses chemicals to make food instead of light |
