Key Terms
Key Terms 2
Formulas and Fun
Chapter 2 Madness!
Mitosis
100
The process by which a cell captures energy in sunlight and uses it to make food
What is photosynthesis?
100
An organism that can make its own food.
What is an autotroph?
100
Photosynthesis' raw materials.
What are carbon dioxide and water.
100
The energy that yields sugar and oxygen in photosynthesis.
What is light energy.
100
Making the exact copy of DNA
What is replication?
200
Colored chemical compounds that absorb light.
What are pigments?
200
The process by which cells obtain energy from glucose.
What is respiration?
200
Respiration yields these.
What is carbon dioxide and water.
200
Two items that are created in photosynthesis.
What are sugars and oxygen.
200
Name what DNA stands for.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
300
Carbon dioxide enters the plant through these small openings on the undersides of leaves.
What are stomata?
300
An energy releasing process that does not require oxygen.
What is fermentation?
300
The raw materials for respiration.
What is sugar and oxygen?
300
How many stages are in photosynthesis?
What are two?
300
The three stages of the cell cycle, in order.
What are Interphase, Mitosis, Cytokinesis?
400
The main photosynthetic pigment in chloroplasts.
What is chlorophyll?
400
The regular sequence of growth and division that cells undergo.
What is the cell cycle?
400
The formula for respiration.
What is C6H1206 +6 02----> 6CO2+6 H2O
400
How many stages are in respiration?
What are two?
400
The four phases of Mitosis, in order.
What are prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase?
500
An organism that can not make its own food.
What is a heterotroph?
500
Threadlike chromatin in the nucleus condenses to form double rod structures.
What are chromosomes?
500
The formula for Photosynthesis.
What is 6CO2 +6H2O---->C6H12O6 + 6 O2
500
During the second stage of respiration, this organelle breaks down small molecules.
What is the mitochondria?
500
The four nitrogen bases in DNA.
What are adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine?
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