CK12 Life Science
Photosynthesis is crucial to most ecosystems since animals obtain energy by eating other animals, or plants and seeds that conta ...
chlorophyll Green pigment in leaves; helps to capture solar energy. chloroplast The organelle in which photosynthesis takes plac ...
Check Your Understanding Where does the energy captured at the beginning of photosynthesis originate from? What is the form of ...
Glycolysis: the breakdown of glucose. The citric acid cycle: the formation of electron carriers. The electron transport chain: ...
Figure 4.12: Most of the reactions of cellular respiration are carried out in the mitochondria. ( 6 ) cycle is a series of oxida ...
Table 4.2:An Overview of the Citric Acid Cycle Inputs Outputs 2 two-carbon molecules 4 CO 2 6 NAD+ 6 NADH (electron carrier) 2 F ...
tion is central to bread baking. The carbon dioxide bubbles allow the bread to rise, and the alcohol evaporates. In wine making, ...
Review Questions What are the products of alcoholic fermentation? What is the metabolic process where glucose is ultimately con ...
electron transport chain Last phase of cellular respiration; used to power the formation of ATP occurs during this phase. FADH 2 ...
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Chapter 5 Cell Division, Reproduction, and DNA 5.1 Lesson 5.1: Cell Division. Lesson Objectives Explain why cells need to divid ...
Figure 5.1: Cells divide repeatedly to produce an embryo. Previously the one-celled zygote divided to make two cells (a). Each o ...
Interphase is when the cell mainly performs its “everyday” functions; for example, it is when a kidney cell does what a kidney c ...
and this DNA is also identical to that of the parent cell. Mitosis and Chromosomes During cell division, two nuclei must form du ...
the chromosomes are attached to the spindle fibers. The spindle fibers will later pull the chromosomes into alignment. During me ...
Figure 5.4: An overview of mitosis: during prophase (I and II) the chromosomes condense, during metaphase the chromosomes line u ...
Figure 5.5: This is a picture of dividing plant cells. Cell division in plant cells differs slightly from animal cells as a cell ...
mitosis Sequence of steps in which a nucleus is divided into two daughter nuclei, each with an identical set of chromosomes. pro ...
Asexual Reproduction Some organisms can reproduceasexually,meaning that the offspring have a single parent and share the exact s ...
Parthenogenesisis a process by which an unfertilized egg cell grows into a new organ- ism. The resulting organism has half the a ...
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