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What is the purpose of photosynthesis?
The purpose of photosynthesis is to make food (glucose) for a plant cell.
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What is the purpose of photosynthesis?
The purpose of photosynthesis is to make food (glucose) for a plant cell.
What is the purpose of cellular respiration?
The purpose of cellular respiration is to release usable energy to power a cell.
What are the reactants needed for photosynthesis to occur?
Light energy, carbon dioxide (CO2), and water (H2O).
What are the products of photosynthesis?
Glucose (C6 H12O6) and Oxygen (O2)
What are the reactants needed for cellular respiration to occur?
Glucose (C6 H12O6) and Oxygen (O2)
What are the products of cellular respiration?
Usable chemical energy, carbon dioxide (CO2), and water (H2O).
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
What is the purpose of photosynthesis? | The purpose of photosynthesis is to make food (glucose) for a plant cell. |
What is the purpose of cellular respiration? | The purpose of cellular respiration is to release usable energy to power a cell. |
What are the reactants needed for photosynthesis to occur? | Light energy, carbon dioxide (CO2), and water (H2O). |
What are the products of photosynthesis? | Glucose (C6 H12O6) and Oxygen (O2) |
What are the reactants needed for cellular respiration to occur? | Glucose (C6 H12O6) and Oxygen (O2) |
What are the products of cellular respiration? | Usable chemical energy, carbon dioxide (CO2), and water (H2O). |
Where does photosynthesis occur in a cell? | Chloroplast |
Where does cellular respiration occur in a cell? | Mitochondria |
What environmental conditions are needed for photosynthesis to occur? | Sunlight, daytime |
What environmental conditions are needed for cellular respiration to occur? | None! Cellular respiration can happen in light or without light! |
How do cellular respiration and photosynthesis work together to help organisms survive? | They work together by photosynthesis producing the reactants for cellular respiration. Cellular respiration then produces the reactants for photosynthesis. Without this connection, we as human-beings would not be able to survive. |
How are cellular respiration and photosynthesis different from one another? | They have different purposes. They also have different reactants and products. They also take place in different parts of a cell. All organisms do cellular respiration, but only producers like plants do photosynthesis. |
What kinds of organisms can do photosynthesis? | Producers |
What kinds of organisms do cellular respiration? | Producers and consumers- all organisms |
What evidence did you see of cellular respiration in the yeast and exercise labs? | The yeast blew up the balloon with carbon dioxide when activated with warm water and when given the proper reactants for cellular respiration (sugar and oxygen in the flask). In the exercise lab, we saw that the more we asked our body to produce energy (during exercise), the more carbon dioxide was produced as a result. This was all tied to cellular respiration. |
How do plants get glucose when they can't go through photosynthesis? | They access starches (think of the paper doll chain)--long chains of glucose molecules linked together that plants produce in case they don't have access to sunlight or they are too young to start photosynthesis on their own. We can find starches in cotyledons of seeds and in many other types of mature plants. |
What evidence did you see in our MicroGreens that photosynthesis was occurring? | They were green--that means that the chlorophyll inside of the plant cells' chloroplasts was absorbing light energy and reflecting green light as a result to start photosynthesis! |
What evidence did you see in our MicroGreens that cellular respiration was occurring? | They were growing! If our plant cells in our MicroGreens didn't have mitochondria to do cellular respiration, the plants might have produced glucose through photosynthesis, but that glucose would have not been broken down into usable chemical energy that would've helped the cells to divide and grow. You can't grow without energy, and that energy comes directly from cellular respiration! |