CELLULAR ENERGY VOCABULARY

A high-energy molecule that contains, within its bonds, energy that cells can use.

• MATRIX

• ATP

• NADPH

• THYLAKOID

The process by which light energy is converted to chemical energy.

• CELLULAR RESPIRATION

• LIGHT INDEPENDENT REACTIONS (DARK REACTIONS)

• LIGHT DEPENDENT REACTIONS (LIGHT REACTIONS)

• PHOTOSYNTHESIS

The process of producing ATP by breaking down carbon-based molecules when oxygen is present.

• PHOTOSYNTHESIS

• CALVIN CYCLE

• CELLULAR RESPIRATION

• ELECTRON TRANSPORT CHAIN

First set of reactions inn cellular respiration in which a molecule of glucose is broken into two molecules of pyruvic acid.

• GLYCOLYSIS

• THYLAKOID

• CALVIN CYCLE

• CALVIN CYCLE

A series of electron carrier proteins that shuttle high-energy electrons during ATP-generating reactions.

• ATP

• NADPH

• ELECTRON TRANSPORT CHAIN

• MATRIX

The light-absorbing pigment molecule in plants.

• STROMA

• THYLAKOID

• NADPH

• CHLOROPHYLL

The part of photosynthesis that absorbs energy from sunlight and transfers energy to the light-independent reactions.

• CHLOROPHYLL

• LIGHT DEPENDENT REACTION (LIGHT REACTION)

• GLYGOLYSIS

• LIGHT INDEPENDENT REACTION (DARK REACTION)

The part of photosynthesis that uses energy absorbed during the light-dependent reactions

• LIGHT INDEPENDENT REACTION (DARK REACTION

• ELECTRON TRANSPORT CHAIN

• GLYCOLYSIS

• LIGHT INDEPENDENT REACTION (LIGHT REACTION)

The process by which plants use energy to make sugars from CO2.

• KREBS CYLCE

• ELECTRON TRANSPORT CHAIN

• CALVIN CYCLE

• GLYCOLYSIS

A process of cellular respiration that breaks down a carbon molecule, used in the electron transport chain.

• CALVIN CYCLE

• GLYCOLYSIS

• LIGHT DEPENDENT REACTION (LIGHT REACTION)

• KREBS CYCLE