Rest of NJCTL Notes for Work and Energy Flashcards
the energy of life begins as …, created by …, traveling out of the sun at the speed of light
photons; nuclear fusion
electromagnetic radiation is composed of an oscillating wave of … and … fields which travel through space
magnetic; electric
The distance between the crests of the waves determines the …, and the number of crests per unit time determines the …
wavelength; frequency
wavelength =
speed of wave/frequency
the wavelength and frequency of the electromagnetic radiation in a photon determines the … in that photon
short wavelength = … frequency = … energy
long wavelength = … frequency = … energy
energy; high; high; low; low
when the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation is between … and … nm, it can be detected by the human eye and is called …
400; 700; visible light
visible light is only a small portion of the entire
light spectrum
light that we see is because the object is … some light waves while … others. White light contains …
absorbing; reflecting; all color wavelengths
pigments are substances that have the ability to … we perceive their color as the … that they are not able to absorb
absorb light; wavelengths
when electromagnetic radiation is absorbed, the energy contained in the photon is transferred to an … which allows it to become …
electron; excited
Excitation means that the electron moves from a … (…) to a …
low energy level; ground state; higher energy level
has to absorb energy … than color transmitted
higher
ATP is the currency of … in living systems. It stores the energy gained in … reactions to power … reactions at a later time and provides the … for the processes of life
energy; exergonic; endergonic; energy
ATP includes three … each of which has an ionic charge of …
phosphate groups; -3e
The phosphate groups in ATP … each other, since they each have a negative charge. Thus, it requires … to add the second phosphate group –> to go from … to …
To add the third group, to go from … to … requires even more since it is repelled by both of the other phosphate groups
repel; work; AMP; ADP; ADP; ATP
the energy from the work needed to bring each phosphate group to the molecule is stored in that … When it is broken to go from ATP to ADP, significant … is released. Going from ADP to AMP releases …, since there is … total … in ADP than ATP
phosphate bond; energy; less energy; less; charge
In living systems, the energy from the exergonic reaction of ATP hydrolysis can be used to drive an … (…, …)
this is known as
endergonic reaction; anabolism; dehydration synthesis; coupling
ATP drives endergonic reactions by …, transferring a … to some other molecule, such as a reactant. The recipient molecule is now …
phosphorylation; phosphate group; phosphorylated
The three types of cellular work are powered by the hydrolysis of ATP: …., …, …
mechanical; transport; chemical
mechanical: …., differs from transport, as transport uses …
moving parts; membranes
ATP is a … resource that is regenerated by addition of a … to …
renewable; phosphate group; ADP
the energy to phosphorylate ADP comes from … in the cell. Each cell is converting millions of ATP to ADP and back again each second –> ATP is …
catabolic reactions; transient
photosystems are utilized for …, and are embedded in the membranes. They are therefore a type of … The membrane is required to establish the … for the synthesis of …
transport; transport protein; proton gradient; ATP
the first step in the process is when sunlight … in the pigment of the system
excites the electrons
electrons that reach sufficient energy levels are …from one part of the system to another
transferred
the … force is used to transfer … ions from the environment to the interior of the membrane. As time passes, a … is formed. This is known as …, the charge difference can be used to power a system
motive; H+; concentration gradient; membrane potential
In another location of the same membrane is a protein known as ATP synthesis, which takes advantage of the … produced and generates … –> … movement (…)
gradient; ATP; mechanical; turbine
Natural diffusion takes over and H+ travels back through the ATP synthase. The … of the H+ spins the ATP synthase and it acts as a turbine. ATP is produced … membrane, but there is a …, so it isn’t lost–> must be a way for prokaryotes to bring it back in–> wasting energy
motive force; outside; cell wall
the energy captured is used to …, a molecule that can be used to do work, power reactions, etc.
work
ATP is a good molecule for management of energy but cannot be used for … of energy because its reactivity makes it … quickly. So ATP producing organisms can only survive when … is available, or if they .. their environment with ATP
would remain … if sunlight is not available
storage; break down; sunlight; flood; dormant
(evolution) energy storage- .. is produced by cells taking advantage of … and .., which is a … source. this marks the beginning of … and … on Earth
glucose; ATP; CO2; carbon; sugar; carbs
person who developed endosymbiosis theory
Lynn Margulis
another support for endosymbiosis is method of reproduction:
binary fission
(evolution) compartmentalization- some cells begin to get … and more complex systems of … This produces isolated pockets that can house separate …. Thus, cells can do multiple … without cross …
infoldings; membranes; chemical reactions; reactions; interference
chloroplasts are a … organelle
photosynthetic
the chloroplast is a double-membraned structure that utilizes a concentration gradient and compartmentalization to maximize its production of the energy storage molecule …
… to store that molecule
glucose; storage vacuoles
CO2 fixation refers to CO2 as a … fixed into a …
gas; solid form
G3P is an … of the calvin cycle
intermediate product
an important feature of plants is their ability to grow toward sunlight. this is called …. it ensures that the plant will optimize the amount of sunlight it can gather
phototropism
phototropism works because the tip of the plant produces …, a hormone that controls the … of cell growth in plant cells. This hormone runs down the …
auxin; length; stem
when light is directly overhead, an equal amount of hormone travels down each side of the stem, making the cells grow … When the light is on one side of the plant, more hormone travels down the … side of the plant, making these cells grow … and the plant grow towards the light
transient –> … can change over time
evenly; dark; faster; leaning
auxin naturally migrates … from light, causing a … The further from the light, the more auxin and more auxin = more …
away; concentration gradient; elongation
(auxin) 1- the hormone binds to an auxin …
2- this signal is transduced into … within the cell
3- … are activated, and secretion of … loosens the wall, enabling the cell to …
affected genes are the ones that activate …
receptor; second messengers; proton pumps; acid; elongate; H+ pumps
(auxin) 4- the golgi apparatus is stimulated to discharge vesicles containing materials to maintain the … of the cell wall
thickness
(auxin) 5- the signal-transduction pathway also activates DNA-binding proteins that induce transcription of specific …
6- this leads to the production of proteins required for sustaining the … of the cell –> to maintain … growth pattern
genes; growth; upward
(auxin) apical dominance results from the release of auxin by the … which inhibits the growth from the …
To make a plant bushier, you remove the … bud, which then allows for growth from the … buds. This is because the bud is removed, which means the hormone suppressing the growth is also removed. This is also why … makes fruit trees produce more fruit
terminal bud; lateral buds; terminal; lateral; pruning
gibberellin:
like auxin it promotes …, and it acts as a chemical messenger to stimulate the synthesis of …, which use water to break down …
cell elongation; hydrolytic enzymes; polymers
gibberellin:
hydrolytic enzymes are important in the … of … to ensure the release of …
germination; seedlings; nutrients
gibberellin:
those nutrients feed the seedling’s early … this chemical hormone is sometimes used by the farming industry to promote growth.
germination: when they start to produce … and …
when a plant starts growing, it gets sugar from the … and doesn’t …
development; shoots; roots; seed; photosynthesize
cytokinins: stimulate .., which allows for …, and … in plants; usually coupled with auxin
cell division; growth; differentiation
cytokinins slow the process in which … breaks down and various molecules and minerals are removed from … before they fall.
protein synthesis stops when leaves are picked, but if they are treated with cytokinin, they remain …, … continues, and … do not break down
chlorophyll; leaves; green; protein synthesis; carbs
loss of leaves:
abscission
chemisynthesis became
photosynthesis
Just as ATP cannot be used for storing energy, glucose is not usable as … Glucose must be converted back into … before it can be used to do work. Energy is stored in …
energy; ATP; glucose bonds
building glucose is an … process that builds single carbon atoms into a 6-C molecule by building chemical bonds using …
The breakdown is exactly the opposite, or … A six carbon molecule is broken into individual carbon atoms and energy is … from broken chemical bonds
net gain of … ATP
anabolic; catabolic; released; 18
the earliest form of glucose breakdown is a catabolic reaction known as … –> stage 1
takes place in … of cells
glycolysis; cytoplasm
glycolysis forms 2 …, or … with H
pyruvates; pyruvic acid
glycolysis requires an … molecule known as …. These types of molecules pull … from other molecules. Once it takes on the electrons from glucose it becomes …
oxidative; NAD+; electrons; NADH
NAD+: … molecule
electron carrier
glycolysis releases … that can be used to phosphorylate … into … In total, only … are released from a glucose molecule. Not very efficient when you consider it took … ATP and many … to make the glucose molecule
energy; ADP; ATP; 2 ATP; 18; electrons
another problem with glycolysis, is that you will eventually use up the … because all the local molecules are being converted to …, slowing the process
NAD+; NADH
evolution’s answer to this problem was a process capable of regenerating NAD+, called …
This process does not produce …
fermentation; energy
fermentation breaks down the products of glycolysis so that glycolysis can be repeated with another glucose molecule. These two processes, glycolysis and fermentation, are …, requiring no …
anaerobic; oxygen