Chapter6&7 Test Flashcards

0
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What is an organism called when it is a self eater?

A

Autotroph

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What uses light energy from the sun to power a chemical process that builds organic molecules?

A

Photosynthesis

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2
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Give an example of a heterotrophs?

A

Wolf
Shark
Hawk

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3
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What is a living version of internal combustion?

A

Cellular respiration

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4
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What is the aerobic harvesting of the chemical energy from organic fuel molecules?

A

Cellular respiration

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5
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Chemical reactions that transfer electrons from one substance to another substance are called what?

A

Oxidation

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6
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The acceptance of electrons you’re in a redox reaction is called what

A

Reduction

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7
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The transfer of electrons from organic fuel food to NAD plus reduces it to what

A

NADH

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8
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Glycolysis means what

A

Splitting of sugar

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9
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What is the first acidic waste

A

Glucose

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10
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The mitochondria has structures that act like what

A

Turbines

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11
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Anaerobic means

A

Without without oxygen

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12
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To harvest food energy during glycolysis what must be present as an electron acceptor

A

NAD+

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13
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What is photosynthesis

A

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

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14
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Photosynthesis implants and Audi occur within light absorbing organelles called what

A

Chloroplast

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15
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What is the light absorbing molecule in the chloroplasts that plays a central role in converting for energy into chemical energy

A

Chlorophyll

16
Q

Carbon dioxide enters a leaf in oxygen exits by the way a tiny pores called the what

A

Stoma

17
Q

Suspended in the stroma are interconnected membrane sax called the

A

Thylakoids

18
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The thylakoids are concentrated in stacks called

A

Grana

19
Q

What occurs into multistep stages

A

The light reaction and the Calvin cycle

20
Q

Chloroplasts are chemical factories powered by the what

A

The sun

21
Q

Sunlight is a type of energy called what

A

Radiation or electromagnet energy

22
Q

The distance between the crest of two adjacent waves is called

A

Wavelength

23
Q

The full range of radiation from the very short wavelength the gamma rays of the very long wavelength the radio signal is called what

A

Electromagnet spectrum

24
Q

Claura feel in the thylakoid interconnects with the what

A

Membrane

25
Q

What is the fraction of the spectrum that are eyes see as different colors

A

Visible light

26
Q

What is the pigment that participates directly in the light reaction absorbs mainly blue violet and red violet?

A

Chlorophyll a

27
Q

Chloroplasts also contain a family of yellow and orange pigment called what

A

Carotenoids

28
Q

A photon is what?

A

fixed quantity of light energy

29
Q

What has a cluster of a few hundred pigment molecules including Chrollophyll a and b and carotenoids

A

Photosystem

30
Q

The reaction center consist of chlorophyll a molecules and sit next to another molecule called what

A

Primary electronic acceptor

31
Q

What functions like a sugar factory within a chloroplasts

A

Calvin cycle