Bioenergetics vocabulary

The study of the transformation of energy in living organisms.

• Botany

• Ecology

• Bioenergetics

• Chemistry

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The "energy currency" of the cell

• ATP

• Glucose

• Chlorophyll

• Carbon dioxide

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The process that breaks down organic molecules like glucose into ATP and energy

• Cellular respiration

• Photosynthesis

• aerobic respiration

• anaerobic respiration

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Glucose molecules are broken down into smaller molecules "splitting of sugar"

• citric acid cycle

• fermentation

• Glycolysis

• aerobic respiration

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Respiration that involves oxygen

• anaerobic respiration

• Fermentation

• glycolysis

• aerobic respiration

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Cellular respiration that occurs without the use of oxygen

• cellular respiration

• aerobic respiration

• photosynthesis

• anaerobic respiration

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Organelle in both animal and plant cells that produce energy in the form of ATP

• mitochondria

• chloroplast

• Stomata

• xylem

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Process that converts light energy from the sun into chemical energy stored in glucose molecules.

• glycolysis

• photosynthesis

• cellular respiration

• aerobic respiration

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Plant organelles where photosynthesis takes place

• mitochondria

• chloroplast

• stomata

• leaf

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A green pigment that captures the energy from sunlight

• chlorophyll

• stroma

• thylakoid

• glycolysis

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