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chapter 5 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| photosyntesis | the process by which plants,algae,and some bacteria use sunlight,carbon dixiode,and water to produce carbohydrates and oxygen |
| autotroph | an organ that produces it oqwn nutrients from inorganic substances or from the environment instead of cosuming other organism |
| heterotroph | an organism that obtains organism food molecules by eating other organism |
| cellular respiration | the process by which cells produce energy fro carbohydrates |
| pigment | substance that give another substance or a mixture its color |
| chlrophill | primary pigment involved photosyntesis,absorbs mostly blue |
| carotenoid | pigment that produce yellow orange full leaf colors |
| thylakoids | clusters ofpigments are embeded in themembranesof disk-shaped struckures |
| electron transport chains | the series of molecules through which excited electrons are passed along a thylakoid membrane |
| NADPH | is an electron carrier taht provides the high energy electrons needed to make carbon-hydrogen bonds in the third stage of photosynthesis |
| carbon dioxide fixation | the transfer of carbon dioxide to organic compounds. |
| calvin cycle | is a series of enzyme-assisted chemical reactions taht produces three-carbon sugar. |
| aerobic | Metabolic processes that require oxygen. |
| anaerobic | Metabolic proccsees that do not require oxgen |
| glycolysis | in the first stage of cellular respiration, glucose in broken down in the cytoplasm during a process |
| NADH | This forms an electron carrier |
| Krebs cycle | Acetyl-CoA enters a series of enzyme-assisted reactions |
| FADH2 | is another type of electorn carrier. |
| fermentation | the recycling of NAD+ using an organic hydrogen acceptor. |