Glycolysis is the one metabolic pathway that occurs in all living cells, serving as the starting point for fermentation or aerobic respiration. An organism dependent on obtaining organic food from the environment because it is unable to synthesize organic material. It may be maintained continually or for limited periods only. The totality of an organism's chemical processes, consisting of catabolic and anabolic pathways. A chemical process in which either electrons are lost from an atom, or oxygen is added to a molecule.
Green plants are photoautotrophs.
A large carbohydrate molecule with a chainlike or branched structrure composed of many monosaccharides. A three-dimensional biological polymer constructed from a set of 20 different monomers called amino acids. An important 3-carbon molecule formed from glucose and glycerol in glycolysis.