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Vocabulary Chapters 4-8 Flashcards

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Aerobic respiration

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Respiration in which the final electron acceptor is oxygen

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Antiporters

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Transports two molecules in different directions

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Carbon fixation

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the formation of organic molecules from CO2

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4
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Carotenoids

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Accessory pigment that also scavenges free radicals

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Cellular respiration

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Metabolic harvesting of energy by oxidation of organic compounds

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Chlorophyll a

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The main photosynthetic pigment in plants

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Cytochrome/b6-f complex

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Complex of electron carries that connects the two photosystem in chloroplast

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Diffusion

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Movement of molecules from high to low concentration

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Exergonic

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Reactions that release energy

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Exocytosis

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Discharge of material from vesicles at the cell surface

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Facilitated diffusion

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Diffusion that is mediated by a membrane protein

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Fermentation

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The final electron acceptor is an organic molecule

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13
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Gap junction

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Communicating junctions

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14
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Glyceraldehyde 3- phosphate

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Final product of the Calvin- cycle

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Grana

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Stacks of thylakoid disks

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Nucleolus

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The site of ribosome assembly

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Osmosis

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Diffusion of water across a membrane

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Peptidoglycan

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Carbohydrate matrix that makes up bacterial cell walls

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Phagocytosis

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Cell “eating”

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Photon

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Packets of light energy

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Photorespiration

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incorporates O2, in RuBP, eventually releasing CO2

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Photosystem I

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Photosystem that was discovered first, has P700 chlorophyll

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Photosystem II

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Photosystem used first in noncyclic photophosphoylation

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Pinocytosis

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Cell “drinking”

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Potential energy

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Stored energy

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Ribosomes

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Site of protein synthesis

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Rubisco

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enzyme used in Calvin cycle to fix carbon in organic form

28
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Stroma lammella

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Connections between grana in chloroplast

29
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symporters

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Transports two molecules in the same direction

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