Cellular Energy
Mitosis
Photosynthesis
Cellular Respiration
Vocabulary
100

States that energy can be converted into another form, but it cannot be created or destroyed

What is the first law of thermodynamics?

100

The stage during which the cell grows, carries out cellular functions, and replicates

What is interphase?

100
The second phase of photosynthesis in which energy is stored in organic molecules such as glucose

What is the Calvin cycle?

100

The most important biomolecule that provides chemical energy

What is adenosine triphosphate (ATP)?

100

All the chemical reactions in a cell

What is metabolism?

200

States that energy cannot be converted without the loss of usable energy

What is the second law of thermodynamics?

200

The method by which a cell’s cytoplasm divides, creating a new cell

What is cytokinesis?

200

These metabolic pathways build larger molecules from smaller ones

What are anabolic pathways?

200

These processes require oxygen

What are aerobic processes?

200

Something that needs to consume in order to obtain food 

What is a heterotroph?

300

When broken down, this molecule provides enough energy to perform cell processes

What is adenosine triphosphate (ATP)?

300

Name the four main stages of mitosis in order.

What are prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase?

300

Light-absorbing molecules such as chlorophyll

What are pigments?

300

Also known as the citric acid cycle

What is the Krebs cycle?

300

The ability to do work

What is energy?

400

The energy required to complete photosynthesis comes from this source

What is light energy, or the Sun?

400

Structures made of supercoiled chromatin that contain genetic information

What are chromosomes?

400

Includes the Calvin cycle

What is photosynthesis?

400

The process through which glucose is broken down in the cytoplasm

What is glycolysis?

400

An organism that makes its own food

What is an autotroph?

500

True or false: All of the energy from the food you eat comes from the sun.

True

500

Uncontrolled cell division 

What is cancer?

500

The products of photosynthesis are the reactants in the process of _______.

What is cellular respiration?

500

C6H12O6 + 6O2 = 6CO2 + 6H2O + ATP

What is the chemical formula for cellular respiration?

500

The study of the flow and transformation of energy in the universe

What is thermodynamics?