Ch. 7 & 8 Vocab

• Aerobic Respiration:

  process of producing usable energy for the cell using oxygen and glucose
• Anaerobic Respiration:

  process of producing energy for the cell in the absence of oxygen

  
  

  Cellular respiration:

  process that powers life by creating usable energy for the cell, umbrella term for aerobic and anaerobic respiration
• Glycolysis: series of reactions to break down glucose
• Photosynthesis:

  The process of converting sunlight energy into sugar and oxygen
• Autotroph: organism that produces its own food