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| organism that makes its own food |
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| process by which plants use the sun's energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into sugars |
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| organism that makes its own food (autotroph)and produces organic molecules that serve as food for other organisms in its ecosystem |
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| organism that obtains food by eating other organisms |
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| organism that obtains food by eating producers (autotrophs) or other consumers |
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| chemical process that uses oxygen to convert chemical energy stored in organic molecules into ATP (adenosine triphosphate) |
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| energy stored due to an object's position or arrangement |
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| minimum amount of energy required to trigger a chemical reaction |
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| total amount of energy associated with the random movement of atoms and molecules in a sample of matter |
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| potential to perform work due to the arrangement of atoms within molecules |
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| amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 g of water 1 degree C |
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| (adenosine triphosphate) main energy source that cells use for most of their work |
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| sequence of electron carrier molecules that transfer electrons and release energy during cellular respiration |
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| all of a cell's chemical processes |
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| the splitting in half of a glucose molecule; the first stage of cellular respiration and fermentation |
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| stage of cellular respiration that finishes the breakdown of pyruvic acid molecules to carbon dioxide, releasing energy |
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| protein structure in cell mitochondria that uses energy from H+ ions to convert ADP to ATP |
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| cellular process of making ATP without oxygen |
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