Cellular Energy
States that energy can be converted into another form, but it cannot be created or destroyed
What is the first law of thermodynamics?
The stage during which the cell grows, carries out cellular functions, and replicates
What is interphase?
What is the Calvin cycle?
The most important biomolecule that provides chemical energy
What is adenosine triphosphate (ATP)?
All the chemical reactions in a cell
What is metabolism?
States that energy cannot be converted without the loss of usable energy
What is the second law of thermodynamics?
The method by which a cell’s cytoplasm divides, creating a new cell
What is cytokinesis?
These metabolic pathways build larger molecules from smaller ones
What are anabolic pathways?
These processes require oxygen
What are aerobic processes?
Something that needs to consume in order to obtain food
What is a heterotroph?
When broken down, this molecule provides enough energy to perform cell processes
What is adenosine triphosphate (ATP)?
Name the four main stages of mitosis in order.
What are prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase?
Light-absorbing molecules such as chlorophyll
What are pigments?
Also known as the citric acid cycle
What is the Krebs cycle?
The ability to do work
What is energy?
The energy required to complete photosynthesis comes from this source
What is light energy, or the Sun?
Structures made of supercoiled chromatin that contain genetic information
What are chromosomes?
Includes the Calvin cycle
What is photosynthesis?
The process through which glucose is broken down in the cytoplasm
What is glycolysis?
An organism that makes its own food
What is an autotroph?
True or false: All of the energy from the food you eat comes from the sun.
True
Uncontrolled cell division
What is cancer?
The products of photosynthesis are the reactants in the process of _______.
What is cellular respiration?
C6H12O6 + 6O2 = 6CO2 + 6H2O + ATP
What is the chemical formula for cellular respiration?
The study of the flow and transformation of energy in the universe
What is thermodynamics?