Photosynthesis Vocab.
Process by which plants and some other organisms use light energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and high-energy carbohydrates such as sugars and starches
What is photosynthesis?
The two REACTANTS of photosynthesis.
What are water and carbon dioxide?
Series of events that cells go through as they grow and divide
What is the cell cycle?
A reproductive cell
What is a gamete?
If Insurance companies covered my useless junk it would be outside too!
Why do we leave expensive cars in the driveway and useless junk in the garage?
This is what the acronym ATP stands for.
What is Adenosine Tri-Phosphate?
Molecule which produces oxygen for photosynthesis.
What is water/H2O?
Threadlike structure made of DNA molecules that contain the genes
What is a chromosome?
A control point in the cell cycle where stop and go-ahead signals can regulate the cycle
What is a cell cycle checkpoint?
Amputation, do you really need those legs?
What is how to lose 50 pounds in 2 weeks?
A microscopic pore surrounded by guard cells in the epidermis of leaves and stems that allows gas exchange and some water vapor exchange .
What is stomata?
NADP can make this many molecules of ATP
What is 3?
Any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells
What is a somatic cell?
Any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division.
What is cancer?
Nobody gets out alive.
What is the reason we shouldn't take life seriously?
The process by which glucose and oxygen break down to release stored energy
What is cellular respiration?
Sugar produced during photosynthesis is stored in the form of this.
What is starch?
The ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism
What is genome?
The time where the cell is ready to divide. At this time, the cell has synthesized enough proteins and has successfully replicated its DNA.
What is M Phase?
To hear the people behind you brake.
What is why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn the volume of the radio down?
A flattened membrane sac inside the chloroplast, used to convert light energy to chemical energy
What is thylakoid?
pump H+ across thylakoid membranes creating a concentration gradient
What are electrons?
The process of cytokinesis in animal cells, characterized by pinching of the plasma membrane; specifically
What is cleavage?
Is formed in a plant cell during cytokinesis.
What cell plate?
The dog thinks you have bad breath!
What is why is it that when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you, but when you take him in a car he sticks his head out of the window?