Monday, October 17, 2011

Window pane terms for this week- due thursday10-20-11

1. ATP- Adenosine triphosphate- this is your cell's basic unit of chemical energy made from breaking down a glucose molecule.


2. Lysis- to split something open-  in biology it is usually water breaking things down.

3.synthesis- " to make" something, you are building something, usually a compound in your body.

4.Activation energy- least amount of energy required to start a chemical reaction ( happens at the arrow in an equation, it's 2 ATP for Cellular respiration).

5.aerobic-  a reaction that is using oxygen.

6. anaerobic- a reaction that  is not using oxygen.

7. fermentation- a type of bioenergetic reaction that occurs in plants and animals when oxygen is not available- a back-up energy process, there are two types you need to know; lactic acid fermentation (animals and certain bacteria) and alcohol fermentation ( plants and certain bacteria).

8.Respiration- the process of taking in essential materials for life and releasing waste products.

9.photosynthesis- the process of taking in solar energy and converting it to chemical energy.

10. metabolism- an organisms ability to use and transform matter to run life processes.