Chemistry of Life
Cell Structure and Fxn
Photosynthesis
Cellular Respiration
Cell Growth (Mitosis)
100
3 particles that make up an atom
What are protons, electrons, and neutrons?
100
The basic unit of structure and function in living things
What is a cell?
100
Photosynthesis uses sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into
What is oxygen and glucose (high energy sugar)?
100
Because this element is needed, cellular respiration is called aerobic
What is oxygen?
100
The phases of mitosis in order
What is PMAT(prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase)?
200
The energy needed to get a reaction started
What is activation energy?
200
All living things are composed of cells
New cells come from existing cells
Cells are the basic unit of structure and function in living things
What is the cell theory?
200
The structure that represents a thylakoid
What is structure C?
200
Required by glycolysis
What is ATP?
200
Centrioles duplicate during this phase
What is interphase?
300
CO2 + H20 ----> H2CO3
The reactant(s) in the equation
What is CO2 and H2O?
300
Movement of molecules with the use of energy
What is active transport?
300
The name of the cell organelle that is shaped like a flattened disc, contains storms and stacks of thylakoids, and is the site of photosynthesis
What is the chloroplast?
300
This product is needed to start the Krebs cycle
What is pyruvic acid?
300
DNA is replicated in this phase of the cell cycle
What is the S phase (synthesis)?
400
Found in the space surrounding the nucleus of an atom
What are electrons?
400
The letter Z represents this type of diffusion
What is facilitated diffusion?
400
That part which is not part of an ADP molecule
What is D?
400
The total ATP produced from one molecule of glucose
What is 36 ATP molecules?
400
The phase represented by U
What is Anaphase?
500
This lowers the activation energy of a chemical reaction
What is a catalyst?
500
Larger molecules pass through the cell membrane via this
What is a protein channel?
500
Molecules used by plants to gather the sun's energy
What are pigments?
500
I am an electron carrier molecule between the light independent and dependent reactions
What is NADP+?
500
Structure A plays this role in mitosis
What is connecting to spindle fibers?