Chapter 2 vocab

The process by which a cell captures energy in sunlight and uses it to make food

• Cellular respiration

• Photosynthesis

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

An organism that makes its own food

• Animal

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

• Chlorophyll

An organism that cannot make its own food

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

• Chloroplast

• Fermentation

The main pigment for photosynthesis in chloroplasts is

• Nucleus

• Cell membrane

• Ribosomes

• Chlorophyll

The process by which cells obtain energy from glucose

• Photosynthesis

• Cellular respiration

• Cell cycle

• Mitosis

An energy releasing process that does not require oxygen

• Cellular respiration

• Fermentation

• Photosynthesis

• Cytokinesis

The regular sequence of growth and division that cells undergo

• Fermentation

• Photosynthesis

• Mitosis

• Cell cycle

The cell grows, replicates DNA, and prepares for division during which phase?

• Interphase

• Prophase

• Anaphase

• Cytokinesis

The cell makes an exact copy of the DNA in its nucleus in a process called

• Mitosis

• Chromosomes

• Fermentation

• Replication

In the nucleus, DNA and proteins form threadlike structures called

• Mitochondria

• Glucose

• Chromosomes

• Ribosomes