Photosynthesis, Cellular Respiration, and Fermentation

Cellular Respiration

Reactants: Oxygen and Glucose

Products: CO2, Water, and Energy

Performed by: Eukariotic cells in the mitochondria

Creates energy

Photosynthesis

Reactants: Water and CO2

Products: Glucose and Oxygen

Performed by: Plant cells

Purpose: To create food

The stomata lets gasses in and out of leaves

The chloroplast absorbs sunlight

Fermentation

Reactants: Glucose

Lactic Acid Products: Lactic Acid and Energy

Alchoholic Products: Alchohol, CO2, Energy

Creates energy less efficently than cellular respiration

Only occurs in humans when oxygen is not present

Misc.

Autotroph: Any living thing that makes its own food

Heterotroph: Any living thing that eats others for food

Nucleus: Controlls the cell and stored DNA (animal and plant)

Cell wall: Provides structure (plant)

Cell membrane: Lets certain things in, and keeps others out (animal and plant)

Cytoplasm: Holds things in place within the cell (animal and plant)

Mitochondria: Performs cellular respiration (turns food into energy) (animal and plant)

Chloroplast: Performs photosynthesis (makes food) (plant)

Vacuole: Stores materials like food and water (bigger in plants) (plants and animals)

Ribosome: Produces protein (plants and animals)

ER: Carries materials around the cell (plants and animals)

Golgi body: Package materials (plants and animals)

Lysosome: Breaks down and recycles materials (plants and animals)