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Cell Processes

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Active Transport
The movement of substances across the cell membrane that requres the cell to use energy.
Passive Transport
The movement of substances across the cell membrane without the use of energy by the cell.
Endocytosis
The process by which a cell membrane surrounds a particle and surrounds it to bring the particle into the cell.
Exocytosis
The process in which a cell releases a particle by enclosing the particle in a vacuole that then moves to the cell surface and fuses with the cell membrane to release it.
Osmosis
The diffusion of water through a selectively permeable membrane
Diffusion
The movement of particles from regions of higher concentration to regions of lower concentration
Photosynthesis
The process by which plants, algae, and some bacteria use sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to make food.
Cellular Respiration
The process by which cells use oxygen to produce energy from cells.
End Products of Photosynthesis
Oxygen and glucose
End Products of Cellular Respiration
Water, Carbon Dioxide, and Energy (ATP)
Chloroplast
Organelle that photosynthesis takes place in
Mitochondria
Organelle that cellular respiration takes place in
Chlorophyll
Green pigment found in chloroplast of plants that absorbs energy from the sun
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