Notes: Cellular Energetics
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Venn Diagram: Plants and Animals
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Coloring Diagram: Energy Flow in Living Things
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4.1 Power Notes: Chemical Energy & ATP
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Coloring Diagram: Structures of Photosynthesis
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4.2 Power Notes: Overview of Photosynthesis
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4.3 Power Notes: Photosynthesis in Detail
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4.4 Power Notes: Overview of Cellular Respiration
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4.5 Power Notes: Cellular Respiration in Detail
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Coloring Diagram: Electron Transport
States Standards we will cover:
1. The fundamental life processes of plants and animals depend on a variety of chemical reactions
that occur in specialized areas of the organism’s cells. As a basis for understanding this concept:
[ ] a. Students know cells are enclosed within semipermeable membranes that regulate their
interaction with their surroundings.
How does the cell membrane regulate the function of the chloroplasts and mitochondria?
[ ] b. Students know how prokaryotic cells, eukaryotic cells (including those from plants
and animals), and viruses differ in complexity and general structure.
Compare and contrast the energy producing organelles of plants and animals
[ ] c. Students know usable energy is captured from sunlight by chloroplasts and is stored
through the synthesis of sugar from carbon dioxide.
How does the chloroplast capture energy? How does the chloroplast make sugar?
[ ] d. Students know the role of the mitochondria in making stored chemical-bond energy
available to cells by completing the breakdown of glucose to carbon dioxide.
How does the mitochondria produce energy?
[ ] e. Students know how chemiosmotic gradients in the mitochondria and chloroplast store
energy for ATP production.
What is a concentration gradient? What is active transport? How does forming a concentration
gradient store energy?
Other questions:
How does energy cycle throughout the environment?
What is ATP? How does it help organisms stay alive? Where can we get it from?