Cellular Processes Vocab

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Across
  1. 5. most common pigment in chloroplasts; makes the plant green because it reflects green light (absorbs all other colors)
  2. 6. byproduct in muscle cells; builds up and causes a burning sensation after strenuous exercise
  3. 9. Uses energy created in light dependent reactions; sses carbon dioxide; forms glucose (sugar)
  4. 11. doubled chromosomes line up along the equator of the cell
  5. 16. the process when the mitochondria breaks down food molecules and makes energy (ATP)
  6. 18. Process of cell division where 2 identical daughter cells are formed
  7. 19. Cell membrane begins to split the cell into 2; Opposite of prophase: spindle fibers disappear and nucleus reappears
  8. 22. when an autotroph uses carbon dioxide (CO2), water (H2O), and sunlight to make sugar (C6H12O6), with oxygen (O2) as a byproduct.
Down
  1. 1. cell organelle where cellular respiration takes place
  2. 2. an organism that can make its own food using energy from the sun
  3. 3. cells in which the chromosomes occur in pairs (2n)
  4. 4. Chromatin coils into visible chromosomes; Nuclear envelope begins to disappear and nucleolus disintegrates
  5. 7. uncontrolled cell division
  6. 8. cell organelle where photosynthesis takes place
  7. 10. respiration that does not require oxygen
  8. 12. sequence of growth and division of a cell
  9. 13. jumbled strands of DNA
  10. 14. cellular energy (3 phosphates, high energy, stored energy)
  11. 15. respiration that requires oxygen
  12. 17. Requires light to make ATP; ATP energy is stored for light independent reactions; Water is split (photolysis); Releases oxygen
  13. 20. Centromeres split; chromosomes are pulled apart and separated by spindle fibers
  14. 21. when chromatin condenses during cell division, looks like an X