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Energy for life
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| autotroph | organism that make its own food |
| cellular resperation | process in which cells break down glucose and make ATP for enegry |
| consumer | organism that consumes other organisms for food |
| energy | ability to do work |
| food | organic molecules suck as glucose that organisms use for chemical emgry |
| glucose | simple carbohydrate with the chemical formula C6H12O6 that is the nearly universal food for life |
| heterotroph | organism that gets good by consuming other organisms |
| photosynthesis | process of using the energy in sunlight to make food (glucose) |
| producer | organism that produces food itself and other organsims |
| Calvin cycle | second stage of photosynthesis in which carbon atoms from carbon dioxide are combined, using enrgy in |
| chemosynthesis | process of using energy in chemical compounds to make food |
| chlorophyll | green pigment in a chloroplast |
| electron transport chain | |
| grana | |
| light reactions | |
| photosystem | |
| stroma | |
| thylakoid membrane | |
| aerobic respiration | |
| anaerobic respiration | |
| glycolysis | |
| Krebs cycle | |
| alcoholic fermentation | |
| fermentation | |
| lactic acid fermentation |