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Why is the Calvin cycle called a cycle?
The Calvin cycle is called such because every process produces something that the next process needs, right back to the original step. Carbon fixation produces the molecules needed for reduction, which produces the molecules needed for the regeneration of ribulose, which produces what's needed for carbon fixation.
The process by which carbon moves from inorganic to organic compounds and back is called?
The process by which carbon moves from inorganic to organic compounds and back is called the carbon cycle. Carbon is taken up by plants through photosynthesis and passed through the food chain as organisms consume one another. Carbon is released back into the atmosphere through processes like respiration and decomposition.
What happens to the carbon atom when transitioning between photosynthesis and respiration?
During photosynthesis, carbon atoms are incorporated into organic molecules like glucose. In respiration, these organic molecules are broken down to release energy, and the carbon atoms are ultimately converted back into carbon dioxide and released into the atmosphere.
How does the carbon cycle flow to producers to consumers?
Producers take in carbon dioxide in its gaseous form from the air during the process of photosynthesis, and use the carbon from the CO2 to create food molecules such as sugars and starches. When these producers are eaten by heterotrophs, they also take in the carbon that is contained in the food molecules that were created by the plants. Later, while breaking down the food molecules, the consumers release CO2 and water as waste products. When these consumers die, the decomposers break down the heterotroph and return the carbon compounds back to the soil.
How is metabolism part of the carbon cycle?
Metabolism involves ither using energy to build organic molecules or breaking down organic molecules in which energy is stored. Organic molecules contain carbon.Therefore, an organism's metabolism is part of Earth's carbon cycle.
How carbon enters and exist a consumer?
Consumers absorb carbon through the food they eat, which contains carbon molecules from plants or other animals. When consumers respire, they release carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere as a byproduct of their metabolic processes. Additionally, consumers can also excrete carbon in the form of waste products.
Why is the Calvin cycle called a cycle?
The Calvin cycle is called such because every process produces something that the next process needs, right back to the original step. Carbon fixation produces the molecules needed for reduction, which produces the molecules needed for the regeneration of ribulose, which produces what's needed for carbon fixation.
The process by which carbon moves from inorganic to organic compounds and back is called?
The process by which carbon moves from inorganic to organic compounds and back is called the carbon cycle. Carbon is taken up by plants through photosynthesis and passed through the food chain as organisms consume one another. Carbon is released back into the atmosphere through processes like respiration and decomposition.
What happens to the carbon atom when transitioning between photosynthesis and respiration?
During photosynthesis, carbon atoms are incorporated into organic molecules like glucose. In respiration, these organic molecules are broken down to release energy, and the carbon atoms are ultimately converted back into carbon dioxide and released into the atmosphere.
How does the carbon cycle flow to producers to consumers?
Producers take in carbon dioxide in its gaseous form from the air during the process of photosynthesis, and use the carbon from the CO2 to create food molecules such as sugars and starches. When these producers are eaten by heterotrophs, they also take in the carbon that is contained in the food molecules that were created by the plants. Later, while breaking down the food molecules, the consumers release CO2 and water as waste products. When these consumers die, the decomposers break down the heterotroph and return the carbon compounds back to the soil.
How is metabolism part of the carbon cycle?
Metabolism involves ither using energy to build organic molecules or breaking down organic molecules in which energy is stored. Organic molecules contain carbon.Therefore, an organism's metabolism is part of Earth's carbon cycle.
All organic molecules contain carbon atoms that ultimately can be traced back in the food chain to?
plants and other producers that utilize photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide into organic molecules. These carbon atoms are initially fixed by plants and then transferred through the food chain to consumers and decomposers as they are consumed and broken down for energy or structural purposes.
How can carbon dioxide be removed from the air and replaced by oxygen gas in submarine?
They use a 'gas exchange system' - usually chemicals that split the carbon dioxide molecules into atoms of oxygen and carbon. The oxygen is recycled back into the air in the submarine, and the carbon is retained for disposal.
Describe the steps of the Calvin Cycle?
1. 6 carbon dioxide molecules combine with six 5-carbon molecules forming twelve 3-carbon molecules. 2. The 12 3-carbon molecules are converted into high-energy forms. 3. 2 of the 12 3-carbon molecules are removed and the plant uses them to produce sugars, lipids, amino acids, and other compounds. 4. The 10 3-carbon molecules change back into six 5-carbon molecules, which combine with 6 more carbon dioxide molecules. The process starts over.
What is the process called when water leaves ponds into the atmosphere and back to the ponds?
Vaporization (aka. evaporation) is the process in which the molecules in liquid water break their intermolecular forces of attraction and become gas molecules. These H2O gas molecules have no where to go, except into the atmosphere. So the process for when these gas molecules change back into liquid molecules and leave the atmosphere, (or when it rains) is called condensation. This water of course goes back into different water sources such as ponds, lakes, and oceans.
When decomposers break down the carbon containing molecules in dead organisms?
Oxygen is released.
All organic molecules contain carbon atoms that ultimatly can be traced back in the food chain to?
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