Unit 2 Vocabulary Flashcards
Monomers
Small basic unity … think brick
Polymers
Complex structure made of monomers … think brick wall
Active Site
Where the substrate locks into enzyme
Substrates
reactants … bind to activation site on the enzyme … kind of like puzzle pieces
Stroma of Chloroplast
dense liquid inside chloroplast
Who is proud of Maya for studying so hard?
Mom and Dad!!!
Aerobic
Part of Cell Respiration
requires oxygen
produces 36 ATP’s for each glucose molecule
occurs in mitochondria
Anaerobic
Part of Cell Respiration
does not require oxygen
produces 2 ATP’s for each glucose molecule
occurs in cytoplasm
also called fermentation
What is the single disk on the interior of the chloroplast?
Thylakoid
A stack of thylakoids are called?
grana
Where does light dependent photosythesis occur?
thylakoid membrane