Photosynthesis
The name given to the packets of light energy that plants absorb during photosynthesis.
What are photons?
A metabolic reaction that occurs in an anaerobic environment.
What is fermentation?
The longest phase of the cell cycle.
What is interphase?
____________ is the theory that is used to explain the evolution or formation of chloroplasts and mitochondria.
What is the endosymbiotic theory?
The two colors of light that are most important for photosynthesis and plant growth (as determined by absorption and action spectra)?
What are red and blue?
_____is formed by yeast cells that undergo fermentation of plant sugars, while _______ is formed by bacteria that ferment milk sugars in yogurt.
What are ethanol and lactic acid?
Cytokinesis in plants is accomplished through the formation of a(n) ________________________.
What is the cell plate?
The plural for many stacks of thylakoids.
What ae grana?
The first stable molecule formed when CO2 enters the Calvin Cycle (it contains three carbon atoms).
What is Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate (G-3-P)?
The formation of ATP by the movement of H + ions (protons) across a membrane is called _____________ phosphorylation.
What is oxidative?
Bacteria (prokaryotes) undergo cell division called ________ that does not involve mitosis since they lack a nucleus.
What is binary fission?
The site of oxidative phosphorylation.
What is the mitochondrion?
Of the reactants in photosynthesis: _______ is oxidized while _______ is reduced.
This product _______ loses a carbon atom and becomes _______.
What are pyruvate and acetyl coenzyme A?
The mitotic spindle is a part of a complex organelle system called the _________ and it is composed to proteins called _________.
The compartment of the mitochondrion where Electron Transport Chain (ETC) occurs.
What is the inner membrane?
The clusters of several hundred pigment molecules in the thylakoid membranes.
What are the photosystems?
The atom that bonds with oxygen (½ O 2 ) at the end of Electron Transport Chain of aerobic or cellular respiration and its final product.
What are 2 H+ to make H20?
Chromosomes condense as the nuclear membrane breaks apart during this phase of mitosis.
What is prophase?
Explain the color of the chloroplast.
What is it absorbed red and blue light and reflects green?
FINAL JEOPARDY: Mutations that can be passed genetically occur in these.
What are gametes?