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What is cellular respiration? What are its properties?
- A three step catabolic pathway that uses oxygen to break down glucose (sugar) to get energy for the cell to use.
What are the 3 steps or cellular respiration? Where do these steps occur?
- Glycolysis (the cytoplasm)
- Citric acid cycle (inside mitochondria)
- Electron transport chain (inside mitochondria
What is fermentation?
- An anaerobic (no oxygen) process
- Only does glycolysis, and therefore produces less energy
What are the 2 types of redox reactions?
- Oxidation
- Reduction
What is oxidation?
Molecule gas electrons stripped from it
What is reduction?
Molecule gains electrons
What are the two reducing and oxidizing agents in cellular respiration?
NAD*H and FAD+H
In cellular respiration, what gets reduced? What gets oxidized?
- Sugar is oxidized to CO2
- O2 is reduced to water
What are the two types of phosphorylation?
- Substrate level phosphorylation
- Oxidative phosphorylation
What is substrate level phosphorylation? What are its properties?where does it occur?
- Happens in glycolysis and the citric acid cycle
- Produces 2 ATP in glycolysis and 2 ATP in the Citric acid cycle
- An enzyme takes a substrate that has an inorganic phosphate attached to it, and attatches an ADP to it, making ATP
How much ATP is produced in glycolysis?
2
How much ATP is produced in the Citric Acid cycle?
2
What’s another name for the citric acid cycle?
The Krebs Cycle
What is oxidative phosphorylation? What are its properties? Where does it occur?
- Happens in the electron transport chain
- Is paired with chemiosmosis (final step of cellular respiration)
- NADH and FADH2 carry electrons to the Electron Transport Chain
2 They go down the chain and are stripped of their electrons. The electrons flow across the mitochondrial membrane and through ATP Synthase.
How much ATP does Oxidative phosphorylation produce?
28-32 in the Electron Transport Chain