Photosynthesis and Respiration

Question 1

Photosynthesis

Answer 1

The process by which green plants and other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water

Question 2

Producer

Answer 2

A person, company, or county that makes, grows, or supplies goods or commodities for sale

Question 3

Monosaccharide

Answer 3

any of the class of sugars that cannot be hydrolyzed to give a simpler sugar

Question 4

Polysaccharide

Answer 4

a carbohydrate whose molecules consist of a number of sugar molecules bonded together

Question 5

Starch

Answer 5

an odorless tasteless white substance occurring widely on plat tissue and obtained chiefly from potatoes

Question 6

Autotroph

Answer 6

an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances form simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide

Question 7

Cellular

Answer 7

Relating to or consisting of living cells

Question 8

Respiration

Answer 8

the action of breathing

Question 9

Chloroplast

Answer 9

a plastid that contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis takes place

Question 10

Glucose

Answer 10

a simple sugar which is an important energy source in living organisms and is a components of many carbohydrates

Question 11

Heterotroph

Answer 11

an organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances