3.3 Respiration/Glycolysis Flashcards
Stages of aerobic respiration
Glycolysis
Link Reaction
Krebs cycle
Respiration definition
Catabolic process that involves a series of enzyme catalysed reactions in cells
Aerobic respiration
Complete breakdown of glucose ad requires oxygen as the final electron a vote or
Large amounts of energy are released
Large number of ATP molecules
Oxidative phosphorylation
Anaerobic respiration
Incomplete breakdown of glucose
No oxygen
Little energy is released
Small number of ATP molecules
Substrate level phosphorylation
NAD and FAD allow
Enzymes to work
What do NAD and FAD do
Transfer hydrogen atoms from stages of respiration to the ETC
NAD
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
FAD
Flavin adenine dinucleotide
Where does glycolysis take place
In cytosol
Glycolysis is anaerobic as it requires no
Oxygen
The amount of ATP molecules needed for the phosphorylation of glucose
2
Glucose is phosphorylised and forms
Hexose bisphosphate
Hexose bisphosphate is
Unstable
More reactive
Hexose bisphosphate splits into
2 molecules of triose phosphate
Each TP molecule loses 2 hydrogen atoms by
Dehydrogenation
TP is oxidised to form
Pyruvate
Enzyme thar dehydrogenates
Dehydrogenase
What picks up hydrogen atoms
NAD +
NAD + and hydrogen atoms forms
NADH
The amount of ATP molecules synthesised
2
Type of phosphorylation that forms pyruvate
Substrate level
Products of glycolysis
Pyruvate
NADH
2 x ATP
Some energy lost as
Heat
If oxygen is available some energy is released in
Krebs Cycle
Glucose + 2NAD + 2ADP + pi =
2 Pyruvate + 2NADH + 2ATP + HEAT
Where link reaction takes place
Matrix of mitochondria
If oxygen is available
Pyruvate is actively transported into matrix of mitochondria
In link reaction the Pyruvate…down a concentration gradient
Diffuses
Pyruvate is…by decaroxylase
Decarboxylated
Enzyme that decarboxylates
Decarboxylase
What is released during decarboxylation
Carbon dioxide
Pyruvate is also
Dehydrogenated
Enzyme that dehydrogenates
Dehydrogenase
What is released during dehydrogenation
2 Hydrogen atoms
Pyruvate is converted into
2C acetate
NAD is…by hydrogen
Reduced
NAD + Hydrogen =
NADH2
Acetate is activated by combining with
Co-enzyme A
Acetate + Co-Enzyme A =
Acetyl Co-enzyme A
Each molecule of glucose produces 2 molecules of pyruvate so link reaction takes place…per glucose
2 times
Pyruvate is…
Oxidised