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Energy of Life
Cells
and
Energy
Photosynthesis & Cellular
Respiration
Photosynthesis
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There are only two types of
organisms on this planet
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Producers – living things that
make their own food as well as
food for other living things
Consumers – living things that
rely upon consuming another
organism for food (energy)
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What are you?
Photosynthesis
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Producers
An example of a producer
would be a plant and how
it “makes” food could be
through a process known
as photosynthesis
 This takes place in the
chloroplast organelle
inside of a plant cell
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Photosynthesis
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Photosynthesis – is the
process of using energy from
the sun to convert CO2 and
H2O into chemical energy in
the form of sugars
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Sunlight radiates the Earth as
visible light that we see and is
made up of many different
colors (ROYGBIV)
 Red,
Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue,
Indigo, and Violet
Photosynthesis
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Chlorophyll is a molecule in plants that
absorbs visible light from the sun
There are two types (Chlorophyll a and
Chlorophyll b )
 Together they absorb mostly red and blue
wavelengths of light while “reflecting” some
yellow and much of the green
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 This
is why you see plant leaves as “green” because
of the ‘reflected’ color
Photosynthesis
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Inside of the chloroplast are
two structures important to
photosynthesis
Grana – are stacks of
membranes that look like a stack
of pennies surrounded by
compartments called thylakoids
 Stroma – is the fluid
surrounding the grana inside of
the chloroplast
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Photosynthesis
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There are two stages to Photosynthesis
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Light-dependent reactions (First)
 Chlorophyll
absorbs energy from sunlight and energy is
transferred along thylakoids, Water is broken down and
Oxygen is produced
 Energy that is carried along thylakoids is transferred in
molecules of ATP
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Light-independent reactions (Second)
 Carbon
Dioxide is added to a cycle of chemical reactions
building larger molecules of sugars
 Energy, ATP, from the light-dependent reaction is used to
form these simple sugars
Photosynthesis in a Chloroplast
CO2 (gas) is used to
make the sugar Glucose
C6H12O6 is
Glucose, a
simple sugar
that feeds all
living things
Photosynthesis in Chloroplasts
Cellular Respiration
The mitochondrion and its role
in providing plants and
animals with energy
Chemical Energy for Organisms
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ATP – Adenosine
triphosphate
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An energy rich molecule
that provides all living
things with energy for
growth, repair, and
maintenance
ADP – Adenosine
diphosphate
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Energy comes from the
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This creates ADP
release of the 3rd phosphate
of ATP
What is ATP?
ATP is molecule that
acts like a chemical
form of electricity for
all living things!
 Without ATP, you
could not move, think,
breathe, or grow!
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What is Cellular Respiration?
Cellular respiration is when chemical
energy is released from sugars and
other carbon based molecules to make
ATP ~ when oxygen is present
 This means that cellular respiration is
aerobic in that it needs oxygen to take
place
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How does it work?
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Cellular Respiration (stage 2) takes
place in a mitochondrion
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Some cells have several
IMPORTANT! ~ Before cellular
respiration can take place ~
Food molecules MUST be broken down
into simpler molecules
 The break down of glucose into (2)
3~Carbon Sugars is called Glycolysis
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 Glycolysis
occurs in the cytoplasm
Glycolysis
2 ATP are used to “start” Glycolysis and 4 ATP are made in the second
stage. That means Glycolysis yields a “net” of +2 ATP
Glucose
Glycolysis is anaerobic
because it does NOT require
oxygen to take place! This
happens in the cytoplasm
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2
Pyruvic
acid
To the
electron
transport
chain
Cellular Respiration happens in
the Mitochondrion
2 Pyruvate
molecules
from
glycolysis
go into
Stage 1