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This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed or transferred.
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?
This initial stage of cellular respiration occurs in the cytoplasm and breaks down glucose into two molecules of pyruvate.
What is glycolysis?
Provide the chemical formula and the coefficient for what is missing in this equation.
6CO2(g) + 6H2O(l) + energy --> __________+ 6O2(g)
C6H12O6(s)
The full name of ATP is _______________.
Adenosine Triphosphate
What is 118?
The measure of disorder or randomness in a system.
What is entropy?
Pyruvate molecules undergo _______________ to produce two molecules of acetyl-CoA.
What is oxidation?
This reaction energy traps energy and uses it to generate ATP and NADPH (similar to NADH)
What is the light-dependent reaction?
What are two?
This is the oldest known branch of science. (Eg. Zoology) But that's not the answer.
What is Astronomy?
In general, this is a specific chlorophyll in a photosystem that transfers the electron to the primary acceptor
What is the reaction center?
Krebs cycle is a cyclical metabolic pathway that occurs in the ________________________.
What is the mitochondrial matrix?
ATP synthesis in photosynthesis involves the same mechanism as ATP synthesis in aerobic respiration. This process is called _____________________.
What is photophosphorylation?
Of the two energy molecules going through the ETC, this one skips the first complex.
What is FADH2?
This what the Latin word, scienta means.
What is knowledge?
This contains catalytic enzymes and surround the grana in chloroplasts
What is the stroma?
What element acts as an electron acceptor during oxidative phoshorlyation and is convert to water?
What is oxygen?
These are accessory plant pigments that reflect yellow, orange, and red light
During Lactate Fermentation, pyruvate reacts with _______________ to reoxidize it to ___________ while being converted to lactate
What is NADH and NAD+?
This is the smallest bone in your body.
What is the stirrup bone, located in your ear drum?
This compound can absorb certain wavelengths of visible light and pass it on to other compounds
What is photosynthetic pigments?
Yeast and some bacteria that carry out ethanol (alcohol) fermentation are called __________________ _________________?
What are facultative anaerobes?
During C3 photosynthesis,
CO2 bonds with this molecule to restart the cycle.
What is ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate (RuBP)?
According to our textbook, Prokaryotes can generate up the this many ATP molecules.
What is 38?
Cytology is the study of this.
What are cells?