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What is six?
Carbons in glucose
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What is pyruvate
The endpoint of glycolysis.
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What is the cytoplasm?
Glycolysis occurs here.
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What is carbon fixation?
The incorporation of CO2 into organic molecules.
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What is the cytric acid cycle?
Another name for the Krebs cycle.
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What is 2?
ATPs generated in glycolysis
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What is chlorophyll?
It absorbs light in the blue and red spectrum but reflects green light.
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What is the mitochondrial matrix?
The Krebs cycle occurs here.
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What is alcoholic fermentation?
This occurs when yeast cells lack oxygen.
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What is an organism that feeds itself using light energy?
Photoautotroph.
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What is 2?
The number of CO2 molecules released in one turn of the Krebs cycle.
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What is lactic acid?
It is found in muscles during anaerobic exercise?
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What is the stroma?
The Calvin cycle occurs here.
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What is photophosphorylation?
The process of adding phosphate using light energy.
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What is RuBisCO?
The most abundant protein on Earth.
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What is 12?
The number of water molecules needed in the light reactions to make one molecule of glucose.
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What is acetyl CoA?
It brings the carbon from glycolysis into the Krebs cycle.
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What is the thylakoid membrane?
The photosystems are located here.
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What is photorespiration?
The release of newly fixed carbon under drought conditions.
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What is beta oxidation?
Fatty acids are broken down into two carbon units by this process.
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What is 700?
The wavelength in nm of light absorbed by photosystem I.
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What is carotenoid?
It is a yellow accessory pigment in leaves.
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What is a bundle sheath cell?
This cell type is only found in C4 plants.
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What is allosteric regulation?
Binding of a molecule to a protein at one site affects the function at another site.
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What is CAM?
The cactus is a good example of this type of photosynthesis.
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