Chapter 9 + 10 Vocab
Across
- 4. A type of anaerobic respiration that breaks down sugars to produce energy in the form of ATP
- 7. light dependent reactions of photosynthesis in which energy from ATP and NADPH is used to build high energy compounds such a sugar
- 9. A condition that when in shortage slowed down the rate of a reaction, light intensity, carbon dioxide, concentration, and temperature are limiting factors
- 13. specialized cell in the epidermis of plants that controls the opening and closing of the stomata
- 16. an organic substance involved in photosynthesis, the principle CO2 receptor in plants
- 18. A molecule produced during glucoses and is converted to other molecules that are involved in the synthesis of glucose glycogen, and other biomolecules
- 19. compound used by cells to store and release energy
- 21. organism that obtains food by consuming other living things; also called consumers
- 22. small opening in the epidermis of a plant that allows carbon dioxide water and oxygen to diffuse into and out the leaf
- 24. A coenzyme derived from pantothrenic acid, important in respiration, and many other biochemical reactions
- 25. loss of water from a plant through its leaf’s
- 28. Carrier molecule that transfers, high energy electrons from chlorophyll to other molecules
- 29. A bio molecule derived from riboflavin, it is a coenzyme form of vitamin B2 used in clinical conditions regarding vitamin B2 deficiency
- 30. organisms that require energy to grow and use oxygen to metabolize substances, like sugars and fats, to obtain energy
- 32. fluid portion of the chloroplast outside the thylakoids
- 34. A water soluble organic liquid that is produced by breaking down carbohydrates and sugars through the glycolytic pathway
- 36. A biotechnological process accomplished by yeast, some kinds of bacteria, or a few other microorganisms to convert sugars into ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide
- 40. The first set of reactions in cellular respiration during which a molecule of glucose is broken into two molecules of pyruvic acid
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- 1. avoid photo respiration by using another enzyme called PEP during the first step of carbon fixation
- 2. The type of respiration through which cells can break down sugars to generate energy in the absence of oxygen
- 3. The primary carboxylase of the photosynthesis process, the most abundant enzyme in the biosphere
- 5. series of electron carrier proteins that shuttle high energy electrons during ATP generating reactions
- 6. contains closely pack cells that absorbed light that enters the leaf
- 8. A photosynthesis adaptation to periodic water supply occurring in plants in a red regions or in tropical epiphytes
- 10. sac like photosynthesis membranes found in chloroplasts
- 11. an organism that makes ATP by aerobic respiration if oxygen is present, but is capable of switching to fermentation if oxygen is absent
- 12. A graph that shows the absorbance of different wavelengths of light by a particular pigment
- 14. A process implant metabolism where the enzyme RuBisCO oxygenates RuBP wasting some of the energy produced by photosynthesis
- 15. has many air spaces between cells which serve to connect with the exterior through stomata
- 17. an integral membrane protein complex that uses light energy to catalyze the transfer of electrons across Tyler Locoid membrane from plastocyanin to fedrredoxin
- 20. any of a number of compounds consisting of heme bonded to a protein, function as electron transfer agents, and many metabolic pathways, especially cellular respiration
- 23. stacks of structures called thylakoids found in chloroplasts
- 26. eco-enzyme found in all living cells, consist of two nucleotides joined through their five phosphate groups, has a rule as a fundamental metabolite and a co-factor
- 27. A chemical process in which oxygen is used to make energy from carbohydrates
- 31. The first link in the chain of photosynthesis. It captures protons and uses the energy to extract electrons from water molecules.
- 33. waxy; limits the loss of water through evaporation
- 35. Second stage of cellular respiration in which Perušić acid is broken down into carbon dioxide in a series of energy extracting reactions
- 37. A type of plant that produces a three carbon compound through the Calvin Benson cycle
- 38. an essential electron donor in all organisms, and provides the reducing power for anabolic reactions and redox balance
- 39. organism that is able to capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce its own food from inorganic compounds; also called a producer