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| An organism that uses light as its energy source and an organic carbon source. |
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| An organism that uses light as its energy source and carbon dioxide (CO2) as its carbon source. |
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| An organism that uses an inorganic chemical as an energy source and CO2 as a carbon source. |
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| An organism that uses organic molecules as a source of carbon and energy. |
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Adenosine Triphosphate
a currency of biological ENERGY |
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Glycolysis
also called Embden-Meyerhof Pathway |
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| Splitting of sugars from 6 carbon sugar to 2 sets of 3. sugars are oxidized, releasing energy and atoms are rearranged to form 2 molecules of pyruvid acid. First stage of carbohydrate catabolism. Occurs in most living cells. Anerobic. |
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| A substance that tends to stabalize the pH of a solution. |
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| A solution that has a higher concentration of solutes than an isotonic solution (lower concentration). |
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| An organism that can grow with or without molecular oxygen O2. |
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| An organism that requires a high salt concentration for growth. |
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| The process of mild heating to kill particular spoilage microorganisms or pathogens. |
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| is a colorless flammable gas at room temp. with a faint sweet odor. Because of its special molecular structure it participates in many reactions. Can be used as physical sterilization in a closed chamber. Kills all microbes and endospores but takes several hours, but at ambietnt temp. and highly penetrates. |
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| Equipment for sterilization by steam under pressure, usually operated at 15 psi and 121 Celcius. |
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| A pathway that converts two-carbon compounds to CO2, tranferring electrons to NAD+ and other carriers; also called tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle or critic acid cycle. |
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| The enzymatic degradation of carbohydrates in which the final electron acceptor is an organic molecule, ATP is synthesized by substrate-level phosphorylation, and O2 is not required. During glycolysis if you run out of oxygen then the fermentation starts as a side process. Muscles make lactic acid, yeast produces alcohol etc. |
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uses light to generate ATP and NADP. What are the two light reactions called?
Photosystem 1, which utilized long wavelength light-far red, and photosystem II which utilizes shorter wavelength light-near red. |
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