Ch. 8 Lecture Notes Flashcards
Two Functions of Cellular Respiration
How living things get energy out of organic molecules
Convert one type of organic molecule to another.
Two chemical reactions that involve the gain or loss of electrons from atoms
Oxidation
Reduction
Oxidation is the:
a) gaining of electrons
b) loss of electrons
c) Oxygen electrons
b
Reduction is the:
a) gaining of electrons
b) loss of electrons
c) Weight loss in atom
a
What is happening in this equation:
What is being reduced
What is being oxidized
C6H12O6 + 6O2 —-> 6H2O + 6CO2 + energy
Oxidation of Glucose
Reduced: Oxygen
Oxidized: Glucose
To make the release of energy useful what happens:
(Three steps)
- Electrons gradually removed from organic molecules
- Energy in individual electrons is gradually reduced
- Energy is converted to a useful form (ATP)
What percent of energy released from cellular respiration is stored in ATP:
a) 30%
b) 60%
c) 40%
c
What is the remainder of energy released in cellular respiration converted to?
Heat
Three stages of aerobic respiration
Glycolysis
Krebs Cycle
Electron transport chain
Chemiosmosis
What organelle hosts the Krebs cycle and chemiosmosis
Mitochondrion
What is the proper order for the stages of aerobic respiration:
a) Chemiosmosis-Glycolysis-Krebs cycle
b)Krebs cycle-Chemiosmosis-Glycolysis
c)Glycolysis-Krebs cycle-Electron transport chain
d) Glycolysis-Krebs cycle- Electron transport chain and Chemiosmosis
d
What are used to transport electrons from one place to another
NAD+ & NADH
FAD & FADH2
What is released from NADH in its oxidation to NAD +
2 electrons
1 H+
What is the oxidized from of the electron carrier NAD+ or NADH
NAD+
What is the reduced from of the electron carrier NAD+ or NADH
NADH
What is released in the reduction of NAD+
2 electrons
1 H+
Which is the Oxidized form: FAD or FADH2
FAD
Which is the reduced form: FAD or FADH2
FADH2
What is added to FAD to reduce it
2 Electrons
2 H+
What is lost by FADH2 in its reduction
2 electrons
2 H+
What is the sight of cellular respiration
Mitochondria
What process creates most of the ATP
Chemiosmosis
T or F:
Electron transport chain is a series of proteins on a membrane
True
5 points of the Electron transport chain
- a series of proteins on a membrane
- Accepts electrons from electron carriers
- Reduces the energy of electrons
- Energy from the electrons is used to actively transport H+ across the membrane
- Oxygen is final electron acceptor
What creates the H+ gradient and what form of energy is the gradient
electron transport chain
potential energy
What does the H+ cross the membrane through and what is the name of the vehicle it uses
enzyme
ATP synthase
The kinetic energy in the movement of H+ is converted to what other form of energy in ATP
Potential Energy
What form of energy is used to move H+ ions
Kinetic Energy
What can use ATP to move ions across a membrane
Transport proteins
What makes ATP
ATP synthase
What process is the splitting of glucose into 2 molecules of pyruvic acid
Glycolysis
What Molecule and electron carrier are produced by glycolysis
ATP
NADH
What set of reactions in glycolysis includes the addition of phosphates to glucose?
a) Energy input
b) Energy removal
c) Energy conversion
Energy input
What set of reactions in glycolysis includes the removal of phosphates (onto ATP) and electrons?
a) Energy input
b) Energy removal
c) Energy conversion
Energy removal
Process in which phosphate is transferred from an organic molecule to ADP
Substrate level phosphorylation
What are the 2 ways ATP is made in Respiration?
a) glycolysis, chemiosmosis
b) Krebs cycle, Substrate level phosphorylation
c) Chemiosmosis, substrate level phosphorylation
c
What happens to pyruvic acid in order to turn it into Pyruvate?
Lost an H+ ion
In order for pyruvic acid to be turned in to a two carbon compound what is the electron carrier used? and what compound does it give off?
NAD+
CO2
What enzyme attaches itself to the two carbon compound?
Coenzyme A
What is the name of the enzyme after pyruvic acid is converted to a two carbon compound and the coenzyme has attached itself?
Acetyl CoA
What two electron carriers are electrons transferred to during the Kreb’s cycle
NAD+
FAD
What is produced from the Kreb’s cycle
CO2
What is produced by substrate level phosphorylation
ATP
What feeds electrons into the electron transport chain?
FADH2
In non photosynthetic what is seen as a waste product
CO2
Without what diatomic molecule will the electron transport chain stop working?
O2
What electron carrier is not produced in the absence of O2 in the electron transport chain?
NAD+
Increasing levels of ATP and one of the products of the Krebs cycle inhibits what step of what Process in cellular respiration.
ATP
third step of glycolysis
Adenosine monophosphate is used to make what form of potential energy
ATP
The enzyme that is one of the main regulators of ATP production is also responsible for what step in what process?
3rd step of glycolysis
What happens when no O2 is available
Fermentation
What is the process called when there is Oxidation of organic compounds in the absence of oxygen
fermentation
Without O2 glycolysis results in a buildup of and drop in:
a) FAD,FADH2
b) ADP, ATP
c) NADH, NAD+
c
What are the two fermentation processes that remove the electrons from NADH using pyruvic acid?
Alcohol fermentation
Lactic acid fermentation
When using alcohol fermentation to remove electrons from NADH what are the products after pyruvic acid undergoes reduction
Ethanol+ + CO2
What undergoes reduction in lactic acid fermentation
pyruvate
What is the product in the reduction of pyruvate
Lactate
What other electron carriers can prokaryotes use?
metals
sulfur compounds
organic compounds
T or F:
A prokaryotes ability to use other electron acceptors allows them to live in an O2 free environment but still use an electron transport chain
True
Each NADH (optimally) yields how many ATP:
a) 1.5
b) 2.5
c) 3.25
b
Active transport in to the mitochondria requires what amount of ATP
1
Each FADH2 yields how many ATP:
a) 1.5
b) 2.5
c) 3.25
a
What 3 types of poisons disrupt the function of the mitochondria
- Electron transport chain disrupters
- ATP synthase blockers
- Uncouplers
What type of fat uses facilitated diffusion that allows H+ to cross the mitochondrial membrane
Brown fat
What type of waste is produced by respiration in animals
Nitrogen waste
Name 3 different types of sugars consumed that were discussed in class
glucose
fructose
galactose
Fructose is now mainly consumed as what
Sucrose
industrially altered glucose
What process produces ATP,NADH and pyruvic acid
Glycolysis
What process involves the production of CO2, ATP, NADH, and FADH2
The Krebs cycle