BIOL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Asexual Reproduction, Cellular Respiration, Glyceraldehyde 3-Phosphate

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Sugar molecules made from g3p serve a plant"s own food supply . 50% of carbs made by photosynthesis are consumed as fuel for cellular respiration in mitochondria . Sugars also used to make other organic molecules (e. g. cellulose) : cellulose is most abundant organic molecule in a plant. Excess food made by plants is stored in roots, tubers, seeds, and fruits . Cell division plays many important roles in the lives of organisms. Ability to reproduce own kind is a distinguishing characteristic of living things from nonliving things . Cell division = reproduction at the cellular level : creates 2 resulting daughter cells that are genetically identical to each other & to parent cell. Before a parent splits, it duplicates its chromosomes. = structures containing most of the cell"s dna . One set of chromosomes is distributed to each daughter cell. Cell division sometimes results in reproduction of an entire organism .

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