Vocabulary-Cell Processes and Energy

The organelle that helps the cell turn food into energy

• DNA

• Ribosomes

• Mitochondria

• Chloroplasts

The process of turning oxygen and sugar into ATP energy in the mitochondria

• Prokaryotic

• Eukaryotic

• Photosynthesis

• Cellular Respiration

Organelle in plant cells that uses energy from sunlight to make sugar

• Mitochondria

• Cell Wall

• Cell Membrane

• Chloroplast

The process of turning sunlight & carbon dioxide into sugar for plant food

• photosynthesis

• cellular respiration

• cell membrane

• cytokinesis

powerhouse of the cell.

• mitochondria

• endoplasmic reticulum

• nucleus

• mitosis

part of eukaryotic cell division during which the cell nucleus divides.

• mitosis

• meiosis

• vacuole

• eukaryotic cells

An organelle found in plant cells where photosynthesis occurs.

• chloroplast

• cystoplasm

• vacuole

• prokaryotic cells

The final stage of the cell cycle, in which the cell’s cytoplasm divides, distributing the organelles into each of the two new daughter cells

• replication

• cytokinesis

• mitosis

• cell theory

the movement of substances across the cell membrane that requires the cell to use energy

• active transport

• passive transport

• fermentation

• vesicle

the food (sugar) that plants make for themselves

• glucose

• ATP

• granola bars

• photosynthesis