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| An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide. |
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| (in green plant cells) A plastid that contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis takes place. |
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| The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water. |
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| metabolic pathway found in the stroma of the chloroplast in which carbon enters in the form of CO2 and leaves in the form of sugar |
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| Light reactions (of photosynthesis) |
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| ATP (Adenosine triphosphate) |
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| the body's energy currency - released when fuel molecules are broken down. |
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| An organelle found in large numbers in most cells, in which the biochemical processes of respiration and energy production occur. |
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| Cellular Respiration (Aerobic) |
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| the process by which ATP is produced by cells by the complete oxidation of organic compounds |
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| The breakdown of glucose by enzymes, releasing energy and pyruvic acid. |
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| electron transfer between an electron donor (such as NADH) and an electron acceptor (such as O2) with the transfer of H+ ions (protons) across a membrane. |
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| (or food cycle) depicts feeding connections (who eats whom) in an ecological community. |
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| a biological environment consisting of all the organisms living in a particular area, as well as all the nonliving (abiotic), physical components of ... |
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| the extension of the economic notion of capital (manufactured means of production) to goods and services relating to the natural environment. |
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| the position it occupies in a food chain. |
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| A keystone species is a species that plays a critical role in maintaining the structure of an ecological community |
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| Population growth in which the growth rate decreases with increasing number of individuals until it. |
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| present in an environment that controls a process, particularly the growth, abundance or distribution of a population of organisms in an ecosystem. |
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| the maximum population size of the species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, |
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| the degree of variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet |
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| The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms |
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| The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. |
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| drug resistance where a microorganism is able to survive exposure to an antibiotic. |
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| Any cause that reduces reproductive success in a proportion of a population, potentially exerts evolutionary pressure or selection |
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