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photosynthesis vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| autotroph | organism that capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and uses it to produce its own fos |
| heterotroph | organisms that obtain energy from the food it consumes |
| cellular respiration | release energy by breaking down glucose and other food molecules in the presence of oxygen |
| aerobic respiration | organisms that use oxygen to turn fats and sugar into chemical energy |
| chloroplast | captures energy from sunlight and converts it into chemical energy |
| thylakoid | pancake stack; collect the light energy |
| mitochondria | converts the chemical energy stored in food into compounds that are more convenient |
| calvin cycle | reaction of photosynthesis that use the energy stored by the light dependent reaction to form glucose and other molecules |
| lacin acid fermentation | the conversion of pyruvic acid that forms as a result of glycolysis into Lactic acid |
| alcoholic fermentation | metabolic process that produces chemical changes in organic substrates through the action of enzymes |
| krebs cycle | pyruvic acid is broken down into carbon dioxide |
| glycolysis | a molecule of glucose is broken down into two molecules of pyruvic acid |
| ATP-adenosine triphosphate | molecule that transfer energy |
| ADP-adenosine diphosphate | lower energy molecule converted into ADP |
| stroma | space in chloroplast outside thylakoids where the calvin cycle happens |
| cristael | increase capacity of mitochondria to make ATP |
| chlorophyll | pigment of plant; captures light energy |
| photosynthesis | plants and organism use light energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen |
| anaerobic respiration | cells break down sugars to generate energy in the absence of oxygen |
| electron transport chain | protein in which the high energy electron krebs cycle are used to convert adp into atp |