An organism that can make its own food by synthesizing organic nutrients from inorganic materials, using energy from sunlight or a chemical source to drive the process.

A sugar that the main source of chemical energy for cell functions in organisms from bacteria and plants to humans.

What living thing(s) use glucose as a fuel?

Process by which plants, algae, and certain microorganisms transform light energy from the sun into the chemical energy of food.

Photosynthesis takes place in the leaves of _____ plants.

Water enters through the _____ of a plant.

An organism that obtains nutrients by consuming other organisms.

Process of carrying oxygen to cells, getting rid of carbon dioxide, and releasing energy.

C6 H12 O6 + O2 ----> CO2 + H2O + ATP