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Chapter 6 and 7 Flashcards

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O2 is consumed as glucose is broken down to co2 and h2o, the cell captures the energy released in ATP. This process is called?

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Cellular respiration

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The energy of sunlight is used to rearrange the atoms of co2 and h2o to produce o2 and glucose. This process is called?

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Photosynthesis

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Energy unit that is used for energy consumption is?

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Kilocalories

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The movement of electrons from one molecule to another is called?

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Redox reaction

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The loss of electrons from one substance is called?

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Oxidation

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The addition of electrons to another substance is called

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Reduction

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This coenzyme accepts electrons and becomes to reduced to NADH+ it is known as?

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NAD+

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What are the three steps or stages of cellular respiration.

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1) glycolysis
2) pyruvate oxidation and the citric acid cycle
3) oxidative phosphorylation

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An energy staircase that transports electrons from molecule to molecule is known as?

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Electron transport chain

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The process of using potential energy of the concentration gradient to make ATP is called?

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Chemiosmosis

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The process of ATP being formed through glycolysis is called?

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Substrate level phosphorylation

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The compounds that form between the initial reactant glucose, and the final product pyruvate, are known as?

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Intermediates

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A compound that is derived from a B-vitamin, joins with a two carbon group to form a molecule called?

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Acetyl COa

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An enzyme complex that synthesizes ATP is called?

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ATP synthase

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A common type of fermentation in which muscle cells can regenerate NAD+

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Lactic acid fermentation

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The process in which alcohol is fermented

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Alcohol fermentation

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The process of a plants converting co2 and h2o to their own organic molecules and release o2 as bi-product is known as?

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Photosynthesis

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Consumers that feed on plants, animals, or decompose organic material are called ?

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Heterotrophs

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Photosynthesis takes place in the ?

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Chloroplasts

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A light absorbing pigment in the chloroplasts that plays a central role in converting solar energy to chemical energy is called?

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Chlorophyll

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The green tissue that is inside the interior of the leaf?

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Mesophyll

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Tiny pores that allow carbon dioxide to enter and oxygen to exit are called?

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Stomata

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The thick fluid that is enclosed in the inner compartment of a membrane is called?

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Stroma

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A system of interconnected membranous sacs is called?

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Thylakoids

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Thylakoids are concentrated in stacks called?

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Grana

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The steps that convert light energy into chemical energy and release o2 are called?

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Light reactions

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The two stages of photosynthesis are?

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Light reactions and Calvin cycle

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The incorporation of carbon from co2 into organic compounds is called?

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Carbon fixation

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The full range of wavelengths from the very short gamma rays to very long wavelength radio waves is called?

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Electromagnetic spectrum

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The distance between the crests of two adjacent waves is called a ?

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Wavelength

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A fixed quantity of energy and has a shorter wavelength of light is?

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Photo

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The chloroplast that absorbs blue violet and red light is?

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Chlorophyll A

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The chlorophyll that absorbs blue and orange light and reflects yellow green is?

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Chlorophyll b

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Pigments that are various shades of yellow and orange are?

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Carotenoids

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A number of light harvesting complexes surrounding a reaction center complex is ?

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A photo system

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The chemiosmotic production of ATP in photosynthesis is called?

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Photo phosphorylation

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Plants that use Co2 directly from the air, and carbon fixation occurs when the enzyme rubisco adds Co2 to rubp are called?

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C3 plants

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As o2 builds up in a leaf, rubisco adds o2 instead of co2 to rubp is known as?

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Photorespiration

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Plants that fix co2 into a four carbon compounds are known as?

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C4 plants

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Plants that conserve water by opening their stomata and admitting co2 at night is called?

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Cam plants

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When solar radiation that reaches earth atom sphere and includes ultraviolet radiation and visible light ?

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Greenhouse effect

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When greenhouse gases affect that climate on earth?

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Global climate change

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