| Term | Definition |
|---|
| ANAEROBIC (no oxygen required) | Glycolysis is what type of process? |
| CYTOPLASM OF CELLS | Where does glycolysis take place? |
| NADH (x2 molecules) | NAD+ is reduced to what? |
| AEROBIC | What type of process is the Kreb Cylce? |
| MITOCHONDRION | Where does the transition reaction and Kreb Cycle take place? |
| C02 | What leaves the Kreb Cycle? |
| Electron Transport Chain | What is a system of electron carrying proteins that are embedded in the inner membrane of the mitochondrion? |
| OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION | What is the entire operation referred to as? |
| ALOT ............. 32 | How much ATP is generated? |
| transfer of electrons & H+ ion diffusion | What two processes are happening at once to drive the generation of ATP? |
| FERMENTATION | What happens if NO oxygen is available? |
| ALCOHOL/LACTIC ACID | What are the two types of fermentation? |
| PYRUVIC ACID | NADH can be oxidized by reducing what? |
| Splitting down sugar | What does glycolysis mean? |
| Glucose, 2 Pyruvate molecules, 2ATPS, and 2 NADH | What are the starting / ending materials of glycolysis? |
| ENERGY CARRIER | What function does NAD perform? |
| ETHANOL | In alcohol fermentation, the H+ acceptor is? |
| Pyruvate | In Lactic Acid fermentation, the H+ acceptor is? |
| Toxic effects of the organic compound produced | Why can't fermentation go indefinitely? |
| ENZYMES | What allows each of the 10 steps of glycolysis to occur? |
| TWICE | The sugar is phosphorylated how many times? |
| NADH | When NAD accepts two electrons and one proton, it is reduced to? |
| ATP | What is the principal energy carrier in living systems? |
| GLYCOLYSIS & RESPIRATION | Oxidation of glucose takes place in two major stages... |
| CYTOPLASM...MITOCHONDRION | Glycolysis occurs in the..while the two stages of respiration occur in... |
| 2 | What is the number of ATP molecules made from each NADH |
| NADH | What is a form of energy storage in the krebs cycle? |
| thylakoids | saclike photosynthesis membranes |
| Pigments | A substance that absorbs light. |
| Calvin Cycle | A series of enzyme-assisted chemical reactions that produces a three-carbon sugar molecule. |
| autotrophs | organisms that use energy from the sun or energy stored in chemical compounds to manufacture in their own nutrients |
| Heterotrophs | organisms that cannot make their own food |
| Heterotrophs | Organisms that get energy from consuming food. |
| Chlorophyll | the primary pigment involved in photosynthesis. |
| Electron Transport Chain | The series of molecules down which excited electrons are passed in a thylakoid membrane. |
| Photosynthesis | The process that uses the sun's energyto make simple sugars which are used by plants for energy. |
| Chloroplast | The plant cell organelle where photosynthesis occurs. |
| Oxygen | The gas which is the waste product of photosynthesis |
| Carbon Dioxide | The gas which is needed for photosynthesis to take place |
| Stomata | Openings in the bottom of leaves where gas exchange occurs |
| C6 H12 06 | The chemical formula for glucose |
| Sunlight, Carbon Dioxide, Water | The 3 things needed for photosynthesis |
| Chlorophyll | The green pigment that plants use to change energy from sunlight into chemical energy |
| Carbohydrate | The type of biomolecule that glucose belongs to |
| A Jellybean with Poker Chips Inside | An analogy for what a chloroplast looks like. |
| autotrophs | organisms such as plants that make their own food |
| heterotrophs | organisms that cannot use the sun's energy directly |
| photosynthesis | a process in which plants use the energy of sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into high-energy carbohydrates and oxygen, a waste product |
| pigments | light absorbing molecules that plants use to gather the sun's energy |
| chlorophyll | the plants' principal pigment |
| thylakoids | saclike photosynthetic membranes |
| stroma | region outside the thylakoid membranes in chloroplasts |
| light-dependent reactions | reactions of photosynthesis that use energy from light to produce ATP and NADPH |
| adenosine triphosphate (ATP) | one of the principal chemical compounds that living things use to store and release energy |
| NADP+ | one of the carrier molecules that transfers high-energy electrons from chlorophyll to other molecules |
| Calvin Cycle | reactions of photosynthesis in which energy from ATP and NADP is used t build high-energy compounds such as sugars |
| glycolysis | first step in releasing the energy of glucose, in which a molecule of glucose is broken into two molecules of pyruvic acid |
| cellular respiration | process that releases energy by breaking down glucose and other food molecules in the presence of oxygen |
| NAD+ | electron carrier involved in glycolysis |
| fermentation | process by which cells release energy in the absence of oxygen |
| anaerobic | process that does not require oxygen |
| aerobic | process that requires energy |
| Krebs cycle | second stage of cellular respiration, in which pyruvic acids is broken down into carbon dioxide in a series of energy-extracting reactions |
| electron transport chain | a series of proteins in which the high-energy electrons from the Krebs cycle are used to convert ADP into ATP |
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