8.2

Question 1

outline the role of NAD in respiration in aerobic conditions

Answer 1

• acts as a coenzyme
• able to dehydrogenase
• takes/carries H to ETC on inner mitochondrial membrane for ATP production
• oxidized when it reaches inner membrane
• reduced when it accepts e- during krebs and glycolysis
• 2.5 or 3 ATP produced per reduced NAD