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| Any organism that can produce its own food |
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| Any organism that needs to eat other organisms for food |
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| The common word for Autotroph |
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| The common word for heterotroph |
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| Carbon in the form of sugar or any other carbon bearing macromolecule |
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| The energy molecule you use for all cell processes |
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| This is the ATP molecule when it is used, needs a P to become ATP again |
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| The 3rd bond in ATP, easily broken by the cell |
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| Turning CO2 and H2O into sugar and O2 |
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| He was the first person to describe photosynthesis |
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| 1st part of photosynthesis; separates water into H+ and O2 |
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| Light-independent Reaction |
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| 2nd part of photosynthesis; adds H+ to CO to make Sugar |
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| Green organelle used in photosynthesis |
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| The excitable molecule in the chloroplast; light causes its electrons to split water |
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| The membrane stacks inside a chloroplast |
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| The liquid part of a chloroplast |
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| The dark reaction or light-independent reaction; attaches H+ to CO |
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| Splitting water into H+ and free O2 |
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| The carrier molecule to H+ in photosynthesis |
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| Combines with CO2 to form PGA |
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| The precursor to PGAL in C3 Photosynthesis |
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| The final product of photosynthesis; glucose or fructose, organic carbon |
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| The most common form of photosynthesis |
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| Corn and crab grass does this form of photosynthesis; uses 2 cells and has Malate as a precursor to PGAL |
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| This form of photosynthesis is done by plants in the desert; uses Malate as a precursor to PGAL but separates light and dark reactions by day and night |
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| The openings on a leaf or plant that allow CO2 in and O2 and H2O out |
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| The precursor to PGAL in C4 and CAM photosynthesis; has 4 carbon molecules in it |
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| Desert plant with thick waxy coating; if it has needles, it is a cactus |
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| Some bacteria do this instead of photosynthesis; happens when bacteria use chemical energy to make sugars |
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| Combining sugar and oxygen to release ATP |
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| The organelle for cellular respiration |
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| Breaks sugar into 2 molecules of pyruvate; anaerobic |
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| This reaction cycle strips off carbon and hydrogen from pyruvate; 1st aerobic part of cellular respiration |
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| This reactions transfers hydrogen to oxygen to make water during respiration; 2nd aerobic part of cellular respiration, yields 38 ATP |
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| Respiration without oxygen |
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| One half of a sugar molecule; made during glycolysis |
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| Hydrogen carriers for respiration |
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| This anaerobic reaction changes pyruvate into lactic acid; this produces the burning sensation in your muscles when they are tired |
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| This anaerobic reaction changes pyruvate into alcohol; often done by yeast or bacteria |
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| Unicellular (one-celled) fungi that do alcoholic fermentation |
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| RNA--> Protein; making protein from RNA |
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| Three letter code on mRNA |
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| Three letter code on tRNA |
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| This codon initiates translation |
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| This codon terminates translation |
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| The building block of a protein; carried by tRNA |
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| Reactions that break molecules down; digestion, hydrolysis and cellular respiration |
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| Reactions that build molecules up; photosynthesis and dehydration synthesis |
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| Reverse of dehydration synthesis; inserts water into a large molecule to break it into smaller parts |
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| Removing water to make a large molecule |
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| Generic term to describe the breakdown of any larger molecule |
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