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the mithocondria turns nutrients/food energy
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What kind of energy is stored by plants when they take in light energy from the sun?
The light energy absorbed by plants is converted into chemical energy by chlorophyll. The energy is used to create a chemical called ATP, which stores and transports energy to cells.
How do cells acquire food energy?
Cells aquire food energy through a process called cellular respiration. This can be aerobic (with Oxygen as the final electron acceptor) or anaerobic (with some other organic molecule like pyruvate as the final electron acceptor). Aerobic respiration can be further broken down into the steps of 1. Glycolysis 2. Pyruvate Oxidation 3. Krebs Cycle 4. Electron Transport Chain It can also take place as photosynthesis but that is a slightly different mechanism Anaerobic Respiration can take place where there is no oxygen available(such as insidee muscles). This is called fermentation(yes the same kind we have to thank for alcohol...God bless anaerobic bacteria).
What do leaves collect from the sun?
Leaves need sunlight for growth and also for nutrients. They take sunlight or sun energy for photosynthesis.
Which sentence best describes how water helps living things generate energy?
Chemical reactions within cells take place in the presence of water.
What two things do the roots take in?
water and nutrients
Why is food a source of energy?
Food energy is energy obtained from food through cellular respiration, which is the set of the metabolic reactions and processes that take place in the cells of organisms to convert biochemical energy from nutrients into adenosine triphosphate.
What is cellular about?
Cellular respiration is the set of the metabolic reactions ad processes that take place in the cells of organisms to convert biochemical energy from nutrients. It is the process of oxidizing food molecules.
What does the mithchondria do?
Mitochondria are responsible for breaking down nutrients. They also take in nutrients and are responsible for making energy for cells.
Cellular respiration is about what?
Cellular respiration is the set of the metabolic reactions ad processes that take place in the cells of organisms to convert biochemical energy from nutrients. It is the process of oxidizing food molecules.
why cell wall important?
this is so that the cell can keep its shape, hence an animal cell being rectangular, and so that the nucleus can be protected.
Why do Cells take in nutrients?
Cells require amino acids, vitamins, minerals, glucose, and fatty acids. Cells need glucose for energy, amino acids to make proteins, fatty acids to make the cell membrane and hormones, etc. Basically, the cells need these items to maintain itself in energy, regulation, and structure; just like how you need food to maintain your energy, regulate your body's needs, and reinforce it's structure.
What are the nutrients and the materials cells take in and products that are released during photosynthesis?
What are the nutrients and the materials cells take in and products that are released during photosynthesis?
What does your body convert chemical energy to?
the smooth muscles in the small intestine take the energy and nutrients from the chemical energy to the liver where they are taken to the whole body, the other compounds not obtained by food are made in the human body
What do producers take energy from?
Producer get their energy by the nutrients and the sun it gets.
What routs do nutrients take in the body?
Nutrients are trasported by the blood cells to diffrent parts of your body
What is a cell organisims?
Cells are the structural and functional units of all living organisms. Some organisms, such as bacteria, are unicellular, consisting of a single cell. Other organisms, such as humans, are multicellular, or have many cells-an estimated 100,000,000,000,000 cells! Each cell is an amazing world unto itself: it can take in nutrients, convert these nutrients into energy, carry out specialized functions, and reproduce as necessary. Even more amazing is that each cell stores its own set of instructions for carrying out each of these activities.
Why are fungi heterotrophic?
It is a fungi, a family of life which ca take nutrients from living or non living things. It can be a parasite; taking nutrients from a living source (hence the term "fungal infection") Or it can take nutrients from inorganic sources such as nutrients in the soil.
