Chapter 8 Vocabulary
Across
- 2. Does not require oxygen
- 3. series of reactions in which pyruvate is broken down into carbon dioxide inside the mitochondria of cells
- 4. electron transport and chemiosmosis is in which process
- 6. Energy-carrying biological molecule which, when broken down, drives cellular activities
- 10. process that converts light energy into chemical energy
- 12. organisms obtain energy in a process called
- 14. Study of the flow and transformation of energy in the universe
- 15. Light-independent reaction during phase two in photosynthesis in which energy is stored in glucose
- 16. Light-absorbing colored molecule, such as chlorophyll and carotenoid, in the thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts.
- 18. Metabolic process in which pyruvate is broken down and electron-carrier molecules are used to produce ATP through the electron transport
- 19. One of the stacked, flattened, pigment-containing membranes in which light-dependent reactions occur
- 20. First stage of cellular respiration in which glucose is broken down into two pyruvate molecules; Anaerobic Process
Down
- 1. Metabolic process that requires oxygen
- 5. Enzyme that converts inorganic carbon dioxide molecules into organic molecules during the final step of the Calvin Cycle
- 7. Fluid-filled space outside the grana in which light-dependent reactions take place
- 8. All of the chemical reactions that occur within an organism
- 9. One of the stacks of pigment-containing thylakoids in a plant's chloroplasts
- 11. Major electron carrier in photosynthesis that is involved in electron transport
- 13. Process in which NAD+ is regenerated, allowing cells to maintain glycolysis in the absence of oxygen
- 17. Ability to do work; Cannot be created or destroyed only transformed