Unit 3 Lesson 5 Photosynthesis and Cellular

Respiration

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Energize!
How do the cells in an organism
function?

Cells must capture and use energy or they will die.

Without energy, living things cannot replace cells,
build body parts, or reproduce.
Food contains chemical energy that cells need to
carry out life processes.

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Unit 3 Lesson 5 Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration

How do the cells in an organism

function?

Producers make their own food. Most use energy

from the sun. Some use chemicals to make food.
Consumers must eat other living things to get
food. They may eat producers or other consumers.
Decomposers get energy by breaking down dead
organisms or wastes of other organisms.

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Unit 3 Lesson 5 Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration

Cooking with Chloroplasts

How do plant cells make food?
Photosynthesis is a process by which plants use
energy from sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to
make sugars.
Oxygen is released into the air during
photosynthesis.

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Unit 3 Lesson 5 Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration

How do plant cells make food?

Photosynthesis takes place in organelles called
chloroplasts.
A green pigment called chlorophyll in
chloroplasts captures energy from sunlight.
This energy is used to combine carbon dioxide and
water to form the sugar glucose and oxygen gas.

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Unit 3 Lesson 5 Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration

How do plant cells make food?

6CO2 + 6H2O + light energy C6H12O6 + 6O2
Plants store glucose, which is a sugar that stores
chemical energy.
When organisms eat plants, they use the stored
sugars for energy.

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Unit 3 Lesson 5 Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration

How do plant cells make food?

What occurs in the organelle shown below?

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Mighty Mitochondria
How do cells get energy from food?
Energy in sugars is stored in a molecule called
adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
Cellular respiration is the process of breaking
down food to produce ATP.

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Unit 3 Lesson 5 Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration

How do cells get energy from food?

Cellular respiration takes place in the cytoplasm
and cell membranes of prokaryotic cells.
In eukaryotes, cellular respiration takes place in
organelles called mitochondria.
Glucose is first broken down into two 3-carbon
molecules in the cytoplasm, releasing energy.

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Unit 3 Lesson 5 Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration

How do cells get energy from food?

Oxygen enters the cell and travels to the
mitochondria.
The 3-carbon molecules are broken down in the
mitochondria, where energy is captured and
stored as ATP.
The products of cellular respiration are chemical
energy (ATP), carbon dioxide, and water.

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Unit 3 Lesson 5 Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration

How do cells get energy from food?

In many animals, carbon dioxide is carried to the
lungs to be released during breathing.
Some of the energy produced during cellular
respiration is released as heat.
Much of the energy produced is transferred to ATP.
C6H12O6 + 6O2 6CO2 + 6H2O + chemical energy
(ATP)

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Unit 3 Lesson 5 Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration

How do cells get energy from food?

What is the role of mitochondria during cellular
respiration?

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Merry-Go-Round!
How are photosynthesis and cellular
respiration connected?

Plants need carbon dioxide for photosynthesis,

and they release oxygen.
During cellular respiration, other organisms use
this oxygen and release carbon dioxide.
Photosynthesis and respiration are linked, each
depending on the products of the other.

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Out of Air
Anaerobic respiration, which is respiration without
oxygen, can occur if there is not enough oxygen.
Fermentation is a form of anaerobic respiration
used by yeasts.
The body uses anaerobic respiration during hard
exercise. The lactic acid produced makes muscles
sore.

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