Bio Week 6

Question 1

If you make your own food, you are an _________ .

If you eat other organisms for food, you are an _________ .

Answer 1

Autotrophs make their own food. (Both phototrophs and chemotrophs)

Heterotrophs eat other organisms.

BONUS: What category does a vegetarian fall under?

Question 2

Which is TRUE about adenosine triphosphate:

A. It is a big word.

B. It is hard to pronounce.

C. It stores energy.

D. It uses phosphate to store the energy.

E. Is different from adenosine diphosphate.

Answer 2

BONUS: Is ATP or ADP the “full” battery that has stored energy?

Question 3

How is adenosine diphosphate turned into adenosine triphosphate?

Answer 3

Mitochondria and

Glycolysis (breaking sugar bonds)

add a phosphate molecule.

Question 4

How is adenosine triphosphate energy used

that turns it into adenosine diphosphate?

Answer 4

ACTIVE TRANSPORT of molecules across the cell membrane,

making proteins,

lighting fireflies,

reproducing new cells,

releasing energy from sugar/glucose molecules,

signalling cells..

Question 5

Matter can not be created or destroyed. Soooooooo…

Jan von Helmont (you have to yell this out loud)

Yell it LOUDER !

discovered trees grow heavier more than the soil loses weight.

Does the tree “create” matter ? Where does it come from ? ?

Answer 5

Water and photosynthesis.

BONUS: How many years ago was 1643 when

* JAN VON HELMONT *

discovered this?

Question 6

“MAD” scientist, Joseph Priestley,

discovered candles stay lit long in spaces with plants.

What did this demonstrate?

Answer 6

That plants release oxygen (needed to fuel fire).

Question 7

Jan Ingenhouz discovered that aquatic plants release bubbles

into the water when exposed to sun. Fill in the missing bubble molecules:

Answer 7

Question 8

Fill in the blanks:

Answer 8

Question 9

Of the colors of the light spectrum,

what color(s) does CHLOROPHYLL not absorb?

Answer 9

Green (and yellow)

Question 10

What plant organelle turns ADP into ATP ?

(loads energy for the plant)

Answer 10

HINT: Plants use this organelle to turn sunlight into ENERGY (ATP) ! ! ! !

plast-tastic ! !

Question 11

Long molecules called “starch” are found in plant cell cytoplasm or STROMA.

Starch is just a long chain, fancy word for simple _________ .

Answer 11

Glucose

Question 12

What are the 2 blanks:

Answer 12

Thylakoid (pancakes filled with chlorophyll)

Granum (stacks of pancakes)

Question 13

This liquid _______ inside the chloroplast,

is similar to the liquid in the cell called “cytoplasm”.

Starches, ribosomes, and enzymes float around inside this organelle fluid.

Answer 13

Stroma