you are a carbon dioxide molecule in the atmosphere. you see a plant. do you… enter the plant
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You are a carbon dioxide molecule in the atmosphere. You see a plant.
Do you…Enter the plant
Stay outside the plant
Light Dependent ReactionsWhen you enter the plant, you see light energy.
Light energy is used to make ATP in light dependent reactions.
The ATP is used to energize light independent reactions
Move On
Game Over
You have now caused the demise of polar bears.
Go Back
Light Independent Reactions
You enter the chloroplast.
Do you:
Enter the light independent reaction
Do nothing
System Error
You cannot do nothing. It is unproductive.
Go Back
Enter the Light Independent Reaction
ATP provides the energy needed for this reaction.
You see a 5-carbon sugar. It menacingly looks at you.
Do you:
Join with it
Run away
Joining the 5-carbon sugar
You quickly make friends with the macromolecule and are now stored as chemical energy.
It is night time and you hear an herbivore. Do you:Remain as stored energy
Expend energy for cellular respiration
Running away from 5-carbon sugar
You are caught
You are Eaten!
The animal eats the plant you are stored in.
Enzymes are used to breakdown glucose (you) and oxygen. Do you:
Continue to be broken down
See if the animal spits you out
Plant Cellular Respiration-Glycolysis
Within the plant glucose (you) move across the cell’s membrane. Glycolysis begins to break you down into pyruvate. Your breakdown also creates the molecules of ATP and NADH.
Continue
Animal Cellular Respiration
You are digested and glucose (you) moves across the cell’s membrane. Glycolysis begins to break you down into pyruvate. Your breakdown also creates the molecules of ATP and NADH.
Continue
Game Over
You are now a lump of chewed up plant, lying on the ground.
Go Back
The Krebs Cycle
As a 3-carbon pyruvate, you are broken down and produce more ATP and NADH.Do you: Biosynthesize
Watch a carbon leave and carbon dioxide
Krebs Cycle Continued
You witness one of the carbon atoms break down and then biosynthesize into carbon dioxide. Do you:Biosynthesize
Watch a carbon leave and carbon dioxide
Krebs Cycle Continued
You are the final carbon remaining in pyruvate. Do you:Biosynthesize
Leave as carbon dioxide
Game Over
You add carbon into the atmosphere. Algae grows out of control now.
Go Back
Biosynthesis
You leave behind the Krebs Cycle.
You now may be synthesized into:Lipids
Amino Acids
Lipids
After you leave the Krebs Cycle, you are biosynthesized into a lipid.
Do you:Stay stored
Wait till the animal starts to move
Staying Stored-Game Over
As a carbon atom in a lipid, you are stored for a long time.
Go Back
Animal Starts to Move
You feel the animal start to move. You hear a loud noise.
Suddenly, you feel warm.
Carry on wayward carbon.
Eaten…Again!
You have been eaten again!
You are broken down into pyruvate. Eventually you are synthesized into an amino acid.
Go Ahead
Amino Acid
You are now biosynthesized into an amino acid, the building block of protein. You have now gone from carbon dioxide in the air to a protein atom. Congratulations, you have traced carbon and energy!
The End!
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