Chapter6&7 Test Flashcards
What is an organism called when it is a self eater?
Autotroph
What uses light energy from the sun to power a chemical process that builds organic molecules?
Photosynthesis
Give an example of a heterotrophs?
Wolf
Shark
Hawk
What is a living version of internal combustion?
Cellular respiration
What is the aerobic harvesting of the chemical energy from organic fuel molecules?
Cellular respiration
Chemical reactions that transfer electrons from one substance to another substance are called what?
Oxidation
The acceptance of electrons you’re in a redox reaction is called what
Reduction
The transfer of electrons from organic fuel food to NAD plus reduces it to what
NADH
Glycolysis means what
Splitting of sugar
What is the first acidic waste
Glucose
The mitochondria has structures that act like what
Turbines
Anaerobic means
Without without oxygen
To harvest food energy during glycolysis what must be present as an electron acceptor
NAD+
What is photosynthesis
It’s a process whereby plants algae which are parties in certain bacteria transform light energy into chemical energy using carbon dioxide and water is starting materials
Photosynthesis implants and Audi occur within light absorbing organelles called what
Chloroplast