Photosynthesis and Respiration

Question 1

ATP

Answer 1

Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), energy-carrying molecule found in the cells of all living things.

Question 2

Autotroph

Answer 2

An autotroph is an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals.

Question 3

Cellular Respiration

Answer 3

The process by which organisms combine oxygen with foodstuff molecules, diverting the chemical energy in these substances into life-sustaining activities and discarding, as waste products, carbon dioxide and water.

Question 4

Chloroplast

Answer 4

A plastid that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis

Question 5

Glucose

Answer 5

The main type of sugar in the blood and is the major source of energy for the body’s cells.

Question 6

Heterotroph

Answer 6

An organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.

Question 7

Photosynthesis

Answer 7

The process by which green plants and certain other organisms transform light energy into chemical energy.

Question 8

Producer

Answer 8

An organism that produces. (makes) its own food.

Question 9

Monosaccharide

Answer 9

A sugar that is not decomposable into simpler sugars by hydrolysis, is classed as either an aldose or ketose, and contains one or more hydroxyl groups per molecule.

Question 10

Polysaccharide

Answer 10

The most abundant carbohydrate found in food.

Question 11

Starch

Answer 11

A polysaccharide comprising glucose monomers joined in α 1,4 linkages.