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what is respiration?

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the aerobic breakdown of food molecules to yield cellular energy, ATP

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breathing

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obtaning O2 from the environment and releasing O2

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how do distinguish breathing and respiration?

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cellular respiration is the term for respiration

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main function of cellular respiration?

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releasing energy from the bonds of the biomolecules

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representative food molecule for cellular respiration

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glucose

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is free glucose molecules in our diet?

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no- starch is

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cellular respiration occurs from the aerobic breakdown from what carbs and biomolecules?

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starch and sucrose; proteins and lipids

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how much energy can the cell capture when it breaks down down glucose?

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about 40% of glucose’s energy and convert into ATP molecules

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what happens to the lost energy?

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lost to environment as heat

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how much of glucose’s energy is captured through anerobic environment?

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~20%

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where is the energy available to a cell contained?

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in the chemical bonds that hold a molecule

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is the energy in a bond the same all throughout?

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no, some molecules store more chemical energy than others

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what biomolecule stores more energy and why?

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lipids - more bonds, and hydrocarbons

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how does cellular respiration break down glucose?

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in a series of steps and taps into the energy carried by electrons

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what does cellular respiration do with electrons?

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shuttles these electrons through a series of energy-releasing reactions each catalyzed by a specific enzymes

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what is the amount of energy released from energy-releasing reactions carried out by electrons?

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released in small amounts, not an explosive released of energy when you eat fod

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what happens to the small amount of energy released?

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some of this released chemical energy as cellular energy/ATP

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movement of electrons from one molecule to another

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oxidation-reduction
redox reaction

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loss of electron

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oxidation

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gaining of electron

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reduction

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what does an electron transfer require? how does this relate to redox reactions?

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require both a donner and an acceptor, so redox reactions always occur together

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what do hydrogen movements represent?

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electron transfers because each hydrogen atom consists of an electron and a proton

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what is the ultimate electron acceptor?

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O2 has a strong tendency to pull electrons away from the other atoms

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important coenzyme used in to shuttle electrons in cellular respiration

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NAD+

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NAD+
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
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is NAD+ oxidized or reduced?
reduced: NAD+ -> NADH
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what role does dehydrogenase play?
enzyme that removes hydrogens from food
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ATP stores the potential to react with what?
H2o
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when either of the last 2 phosphate bonds are broken, what type of energy is released?
exergonic energy
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what is the exergonic energy used for?
be used by the cell for cellular work like metabolism, anabolic and catabolic reactions, movement, growth
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spent ATP molecules are?
continuously recycled/phosphates are reattached by eating food
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reaction for ATP
ATO+ H2O --> ADP + Pi +free energy (reversible)
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layers of mitochondria
outer membrane intermembrane space inner membrane cristae, matrix, ribosome, mitochondrial DNA
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what make up the phospholipid bilayer in mitochondria?
outer membrane intermembrane space inner membrane
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what is cellular respiration also referred to as?
aerobic respiration
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how many stages does cellular respiration have
1. glycolysis 2. formation of acetyl coA 3. krebs/citric acid cycle 4. ETC (electron transport chain) called chemosis/chemosis synthesis
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what are main things to track in cellular respiration?
changes in hydrogen atoms moving through the series of reactions
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electron carrier molecules created in cellular respiration
NADH FADH2
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what is glycolysis
lysis of glucose
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what is glucose?
6 carbon sugar
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what does glucose get broken down into?
2 three carbon molecules called pyruvate/pyruvic acid
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how many steps of glycolysis have?
10 steps to break down glucose to pyruvate and each step is catalyzed by a different enzyme
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how many ATPs are needed in glycolysis?
2
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how many ATPs are made in glycolysis?
4
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net gain of ATP in glycolysis
2
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second product of glycolysis
2 NADH molecules which resulted from the transfer of hydrogen to the electron carrier 2 NAD+
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how is the ATP made during glycolysis?
through substrate level phosphorylation
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substrate level phosphorylation
when a substrate with a phosphate group and ADP fit into the same active site of an enzyme then phosphate is removed an added onto ADP creating ATP
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summary reaction of glycolysis
C6H12O6 + 2ATP + 2NAD+ --> 2 pyruvate + 4ATP+ 2NADH (net 2 ATP)
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where does glycolysis take place?
cytosol
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what type of process is glycolysis?
anaerobic - which means that it evolved early
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what two options does a cell have after glycolysis?
continue to proceed anaerobically- fermentation or switch to aerobic cellular respiration
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what does the decision to move forward from glycolysis depend on?
cell's environment depending on whether O2 is available or not
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what happens when oxygen is present after glycolysis?
the 2 pyruvate moves to the mitochondrial matrix and combines with 2 coenzyme A to form 2 acetyl coA
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what is acetyl coA
2 carbon molecule
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how did we go from 3 carbon pyruvate to 2 carbon acetyal coA?
lost 1 carbons in the form of CO2
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what is the second product of formation of acteyl coA?
2 NADH
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how much ATP is used?
2, but we dont take this into account as it means we dont have ATP to move forward after subtracting 2 from our net gain of 2 from the previous step
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summary equation of the formation of acetyl coA?
2 pyruvate + 2 conenzyme A + 2NADH+ --> 2 acetyl coA + 2CO2 + 2NADH
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what is the krebs cycle also called?
citric acid cycle
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what happens to the carbons during the krebs cycle?
each of the 2 acetyl coA enter this one at a time and all the carbons from acetyl coA will be converted to CO2
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where does the krebs cycle occur?
mitochondrial matrix
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what type of process is the krebs cycle?
aerobic
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how many steps are there in the krebs cycle?
8 steps that are catalyzed by a different enzyme in which ATP is made by substrate level phosphorylation
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what does acetyl coA combine with?
oxaloacetate - 4 carbon molecule - to form 6 carbon molecule citric acid
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since the cycle starts with 4 carbon oxaloacetate, what should it end with?
same molecule to maintain cycle
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how many CO2 are made in the kreb cycle?
2 per cycle, so 4 total
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with ONE turn of the krebs cycle, how many ATP made? NADH? FADH2? CO2?
1 3 1 2
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how many usable ATPs are there in total after the Krebs cycle?
4
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how many NADH do we have after krebs?
2 from glycolysis 2 from formation of acetyl coA 6 from 2 spins of krebs 10 TOTAL
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how many FADH2 do we have after krebs?
2 from 2 spins of krebs 2 TOTAL
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how many electron carrier molecules are there in total after krebs?
12
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where do the electron carrier molecules store their energy?
in their H atoms
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what do electron carrier molecules do?
shuttle the hydrogens to the phospholipid bilayer of the inner mitochondrial membrane, including the cristae where they enter the ETC
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what happens to NADH and FADH2 when they enter ETC?
they will be split into proton and electron
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how are high energy electrons from NADH and FADH2 passed down?
along a series of protein carrier molecules, some being cytochromes - FE containing protein carriers
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each carrier molecule hands down electrons until?
they reach final electron acceptor - 1/2 O2
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what does the oxygen atom do once it receives electrons?
combines with 2 H+ to form H2O which most is used as a waste product
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is it oxidation or reduction when O2 accepts electrons?
reduction
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at the same time electrons are being passed along the ETC, what is happening to the protons?
moved through the proton pump into the intermembrane space of mitochondrion creating a gradient with a lot of stored potential energy to do work. also creates an acidic pH in the intermembrane space
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what happens to the H+ ions built up in the intermembrane space?
diffused back by facilitated diffusion into the matrix through ATP synthase, enzyme/protein channel
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chemiosmosis
diffusion of ions where the ATP synthase spins like a pinwheel and enables ADP with 2 neg charge phosphates to bond with another phosphate group
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how many ATP does each NADH make?
3
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how many ATP does FADH2 make?
2
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total amount of ATP made by NADH? FADH2? total?
30 4 34
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where does glycolysis take place? net ATP made? NADH made? FADH2 made?
cytosol 2 2 -
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where does formation of acetyl coA take place? net ATP made? NADH made? FADH2 made?
matrix - 2 -
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where does krebs cycle take place? net ATP made? NADH made? FADH2 made?
matrix 2 6 2
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where does oxidative phosphorylation take place? net ATP made? NADH made? FADH2 made?
inner membrane cristae 34 0 -
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how do anerobic organisms derive energy?
glycolysis is an anaerobic process, so they can make net 2 ATP and reduce 2NAD+ to 2NADH and form 2 pyruvate molecules which are then converted to either lactic acid/lactate or ethanol/ethyl alcohol and CO2
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kingdoms that can perform alcoholic fermentation
bacteria, fungi, and plants
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what happens to pyruvate in alcoholic fermentation?
pyruvate gets converted into 2 carbon molecule called acetaldehyde and each release a CO2
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what is the CO2 released in beer and champgane?
bubbles
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what happens to acetaldehyde?
converted to ethanol (drinking alcohol)
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what drives the conversion of acetaldehyde to ethanol?
NADH made during glycolysis are oxidized into NAD+
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what is the main objective of regenerating NAD+?
glycolysis can keep proceeding when more glucose is added to the system so that 2 ATP can be created in anerobic conditions
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waste products of cellular respiration
H20 and CO2
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waste product of fermentation?
ethaol
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diff between ethanol and H20 and CO2?
ethanol is energy rich
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what is the downside of ethanol?
toxic to organisms that produce it
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what happens in lactic acid fermentation?
2 three carbon pyruvate are converted into 2 three carbon lactate
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how does lactic acid fermentation make ATP? how many?
oxidize NADH into NAD+ 2 ATP
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what is lactic acid fermentation used for?
make cheese and yogurt
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what does lactic acid in muscles create?
cramps
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what breaks down lactic acid?
liver
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how to stop muscle cramps?
increase O2 intake so lactic acid can be converted back into 2 pyruvates and reenter aerobic cellular respiration

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