Photosynthesis and Cell Respiration Vocab Review

Describes how carbon enters, passes through, and exits an ecosystem.

The process that transfers energy from glucose to ATP

Describes a process that requires oxygen

Describes a process that does not require oxygen.

The breakdown of glucose by enzymes, releasing energy and pyruvic acid.

electron carrier used in cellular respiration.

second stage of cellular respiration, in which pyruvic acid is broken down into carbon dioxide in a series of energy-extracting reactions

Innermost compartment of the mitochondrion; location of the Krebs cycle.

Process by which cells release energy in the absence of oxygen

main energy source that cells use for most of their work