unit 4 vocabulary
Across
- 2. ability to do work
- 3. process that requires oxygen
- 6. compound used by cells to store and release energy
- 8. cell organelle that converts the chemical energy stored in food into compounds that are more convenient for the cell to use
- 12. organelle found in cells of plants and some other organisms that captures the energy from sunlight and converts it into chemical energy
- 13. 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
- 15. process that does not require oxygen
- 16. process by which cells release energy in the absence of oxygen; produces carbon dioxide and alcohol
- 17. process that releases energy from food in the presence of oxygen
- 18. set of reactions in photosynthesis that use energy from light to produce ATP and NADPH
- 20. set of reactions in photosynthesis that do not require light; energy from ATP and NADPH is used to build high-energy compounds such as sugar; also called the Calvin cycle
Down
- 1. organism that obtains food by consuming other living things; also called a consumer
- 2. series of electron carrier proteins that shuttle high-energy electrons during ATP-generating reactions
- 4. second stage of cellular respiration in which pyruvic acid is broken down into carbon dioxide in a series of energy-extracting reactions
- 5. process used by plants and other autotrophs to capture light energy and use it to power chemical reactions that convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and energy-rich carbohydrates such as sugars and starches
- 7. light-absorbing molecules used by plants to gather the sun’s energy
- 9. process by which cells release energy in the absence of oxygen; produces lactic acid
- 10. measure of heat energy in food; equivalent to 1000 calories
- 11. fluid portion of the chloroplast; outside of the thylakoids
- 14. saclike photosynthetic membranes found in chloroplasts
- 19. first set of reactions in cellular respiration during which one molecule of glucose (a 6 carbon compound) is transformed into 2 molecules of pyruvic acid (a 3 carbon compound)