Diocese of Imus Catholic Educational System

Holy Cross Catholic School of Noveleta

Poblacion, Noveleta, Cavite
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Reference/s & Author: General Biology By: Avissar et all Page:

Energy in Transportation
 Transportation uses a huge amount of energy—powering our cars, boats and planes and getting us
where we need to go. We even transport energy sources themselves—for example, delivering
crops to the plants that make biodiesel and then shipping the biodiesel to the companies that use
them! But how is fuel for transportation created—and what is it created from? Energy for
transportation is created from a variety of sources, including solar, biofuels, petroleum and more.

 Vehicles using solar power include cars, bicycles and even spacecraft (which use solar panels in
conjunction with electric propulsion)! Solar-powered cars use photovoltaic cells to turn sunlight
into electricity. Solar vehicles are not currently a viable option for everyday transportation,
because PV cells are expensive to create and it’s difficult to create solar panels that are big
enough to collect the sunlight vehicles need to run regularly. Vehicles that combine solar power
with electric power could prove to be successful for transportation—the future will tell.

What is ATP?
 Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a nucleotide used in cells as a coenzyme. It is often called the
"molecular unit of currency": ATP transports chemical energy within cells for metabolism. Every
cell uses ATP for energy. It consists of a base (adenine) and three phosphate groups.

What is ADP?
 Adenosine diphosphate (ADP), also known as adenosine pyrophosphate (APP), is an important
organic compound in metabolism and is essential to the flow of energy in living cells. ... ATP
contains one more phosphate group than does ADP. The function of ADP molecules living in a
cell is to locate and taking the energy given off by other processes which are also taking place in
the cell.

What is the ATP and ADP cycle?

 The “ATP/ADP cycle” is the continuously ongoing “energy recycling,” through oxidative
phosphorylation of “low energy” adenosine diphosphate (ADP) molecules, to “high energy”
adenosine triphosphate (ATP) molecules (binding energy), and the subsequent hydrolysis of ATP
molecules back to ADP (releasing energy), facilitated by a complex series of biochemical
processes collectively called cellular respiration

What is the difference between ATP and ADP?

 ADP = Adenosine di-phosphate
ATP = Adenosine tri-phosphate
 Basically ATP has one more phosphate group than ADP, and because ATP has one more
phosphate group than ADP, it contains more potential energy because more bonds could be
broken
 ATP forms ADP when it breaks a phosphate group to utilize its bond energy to do work, and
ADP forms AMP
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What is Photosynthesis?

 Photosynthesis takes in the carbon dioxide produced by all breathing organisms and reintroduces
oxygen into the atmosphere. Photosynthesis is the process used by plants, algae and certain
bacteria to harness energy from sunlight and turn it into chemical energy.

 Photosynthesis, the process by which green plants and certain other organisms transform light
energy into chemical energy. During photosynthesis in green plants, light energy is captured and
used to convert water, carbon dioxide, and minerals into oxygen and energy-rich organic
compounds.

The Process of Photosynthesis

 During photosynthesis, molecules in leaves capture sunlight and energize electrons,

which are then stored in the covalent bonds of carbohydrate molecules. That energy
within those covalent bonds will be released when they are broken during cell respiration.
How long lasting and stable are those covalent bonds? The energy extracted today by the
burning of coal and petroleum products represents sunlight energy captured and stored by
photosynthesis almost 200 million years ago.

 Plants, algae, and a group of bacteria called cyanobacteria are the only organisms capable
of performing photosynthesis. Because they use light to manufacture their own food, they
are called photoautotrophs (“self-feeders using light”). Other organisms, such as animals,
fungi, and most other bacteria, are termed heterotrophs (“other feeders”) because they
must rely on the sugars produced by photosynthetic organisms for their energy needs. A
third very interesting group of bacteria synthesize sugars, not by using sunlight’s energy,
but by extracting energy from inorganic chemical compounds; hence, they are referred to
as chemoautotrophs.

Importance of Photosynthesis

 The importance of photosynthesis is not just that it can capture sunlight’s energy. A lizard
sunning itself on a cold day can use the sun’s energy to warm up. Photosynthesis is vital because
it evolved as a way to store the energy in solar radiation (the “photo-” part) as high-energy
electrons in the carbon-carbon bonds of carbohydrate molecules (the “-synthesis” part). Those
carbohydrates are the energy source that heterotrophs use to power the synthesis of ATP via
respiration. Therefore, photosynthesis powers 99 percent of Earth’s ecosystems. When a top
predator, such as a wolf, preys on a deer, the wolf is at the end of an energy path that went from
nuclear reactions on the surface of the sun, to light, to photosynthesis, to vegetation, to deer, and
finally to wolf.
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What is Cellular Respiration?

 Cellular respiration is a set of metabolic reactions and processes that take place in the cells of
organisms to convert biochemical energy from nutrients into adenosine triphosphate (ATP), and
then release waste products.

Process of Cellular Respiration

 Cellular respiration takes in food and uses it to create ATP, a chemical which the cell uses for
energy. Usually, this process uses oxygen, and is called aerobic respiration. It has four stages
known as glycolysis, Link reaction, the Krebs cycle, and the electron transport chain.

Importance of Respiration

 Respiration is important because it produces energy that is essential for the normal functioning of
the body.Respiration provides cells with oxygen and expels toxic carbon dioxide. The BBC notes
that cells need energy for movement, multiplication, the synthesis of essential molecules and
maintaining body temperature