Cellular Energy Vocab

A biomolecule used by living organisms to store and release energy

• Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)

• Kinetic energy

• Adenosine diphosphate (ADP)

A biomolecule that can be converted to ATP with the addition of one phosphate group

• metabolism

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  Adenosine diphosphate (ADP)

• potential energy

energy in motion

• kinetic energy

• potential energy

the chemical reactions that occur in a cell to maintain life

• potential energy

• metabolism

energy that is stored

• Potential energy

• Kinetic energy

organisms such as plants that usually use energy directly from the sun to produce glucose and other carbohydrates

• Autotrophs (producers)

• Heterotrophs (consumers)

organisms such as animals that obtain energy by consuming plants and other animals

• Heterotrophs (consumers)

• Autotrophs (producers)

the stage of photosynthesis that does NOT require light

• Photosynthesis

• Carbon fixation

• Calvin cycle

the process of converting the inorganic carbon found in carbon dioxide to organic carbon in gluclose

• Granum

• Carbon fixation

• Photosynthesis

the green pigment found in the chloroplasts of plant cells that absorbs energy from the sun and uses that energy in the first stage of photosynthesis

• thylakoids

• Chlorophyll

• stroma