Biology 1002B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Chlamydomonas, Glucose Transporter, Chemosynthesis

• School: Western University
• Department: Biology
• Course: Biology 1002B
• Professor: Tom Haffie

Document Summary

A heterotroph is an organism that cannot x carbon and uses organic carbon for growth, rely on other organisms for food. An autotroph is an organism that produces complex organic compounds (carbohydrates, fats and proteins) from simple substances present in its surroundings, generally using light energy (photosynthesis) or inorganic chemical reactions (chemosynthesis) ! Chlamydomonas requires the ability to detect glucose, however even if it was able to detect glucose it has no means of obtaining it. The main reason why chlamydomonas cannot be a heterotroph that grows on glucose is due to the fact it has no transporter in the membrane to acquire the glucose like other organisms can. The change in respiration rate (oxygen consumption) in isolated mitochondria by the addition of. The rate of respiration can be measured by the rate of oxygen consumption which determines how fast electron transport is occurring.