Equations
C6H12O6
What is the chemical formula for glucose?
Glycolysis
What is the breakdown of glucose in preparation for cellular respiration?
2 Pyruvate
What is the product of glycolysis?
The two reactions that makeup Photosynthesis
What are the light reactions and the Calvin cycle?
An organism that creates its own food
what is an Autotroph?
6CO2+H2O+ light ---> C6H12O6 + 6O2
What is the equation for photosynthesis?
The passageway through which ATP is created by a series of electron carriers.
What is oxidative phosphorylation?
AcetylCoA
What is the Coenzyme produced through oxidation of pyruvate?
found in the chloroplasts and is used to turn light into food
Complex organic substances
Where do heterotrophs get nutrients?
Inverse/coupled reactions
What are Photosynthesis and Cellular respiration?
Chemiosmosis
What is the process of moving ions across a semipermeable membrane down the electrochemical gradient?
The stages of Cellular respiration in order
What are glycolysis, oxidation of pyruvate, the Krebs cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation?
The two parts of the chloroplasts. One is membranous and the other is jelly-like
What are the thylakoid and the Stroma?
What are the pigments involved in photosynthesis?
endergonic reaction
What kind of reaction is photosynthesis?
Takes place in the mitochondrial matrix
What is the Kreb cycle?
Citrate and oxaloacetate
What are the first and last unstable compounds produced in the Kreb cycle?
The enzyme used in the calvin cycle to turn 3CO2 into an unstable intermediate
What is Rubisco?
NADH and FADH2
What are the electron carriers in Oxidative phosphorylation?
Exergonic reaction
What kind of reaction is Cellular respiration?
ADP + Pi(Inorganic phosphate)
What is created through oxidative phosphorylation?
The enzyme used in glycolysis
What is Phosphofructokinase?
the product of 2 turns of the Calvin cycle
What is 1 glucose molecule?
ATP synthase
What is the enzyme used to create ATP?