Vocabulary
What is the name of the sugar that is made by photosynthesis?
Glucose
What are the reactants of cellular respiration?
Oxygen, glucose
What is the purpose of photosynthesis?
What is the purpose of cellular respiration?
To make energy (ATP) for the cell
What organelle is the control center of the cell?
Nucleus
What is a product?
Something that is made by a chemical reaction
What are the products of photosynthesis?
Oxygen, glucose
Which organelle does photosynthesis happen in?
The chloroplast
What do humans have to do to get the reactants we need for cellular respiration?
Breathe and eat food
What organelle makes proteins?
Ribosome
What is a reactant?
Something that is needed for a chemical reaction
What are the reactants of photosynthesis?
What part of a plant does the most photosynthesis?
The leaves
Which organelle does cellular respiration happen in?
What is the building block of carbohydrates?
Monosaccharides
What is the energy that is made in cellular respiration?
ATP
What are the products of cellular respiration?
Carbon dioxide, water, ATP
What is the pigment in plant cells that captures light?
Chlorophyll
Name something OTHER THAN ANIMALS that does cellular respiration
Plants, bacteria, fungi, protists
What is the step of protein synthesis where DNA is turned into RNA?
Translation
What is the name of the step that produces 2 ATP where glucose is split into two pyruvates?
glycolysis
How do plants get the reactants that they need for cellular respiration?
Oxygen from the air, glucose from photosynthesis
What kind of light do plants absorb best?
red and blue
What is the formula for cellular respiration?
O2 + C6H12O6 --> CO2 + H2O + ATP
(oxygen +glucose --> carbon dioxide +water +ATP)
What is the sequence of three consecutive nucleotides in a DNA or RNA molecule that codes for a specific amino acid?
Codon