Chap 4: Cellular Respiration Flashcards
Digestion
a process by which large complex organic molecules of food are disintegrated into small absorbable forms
Enzymes break the (in polysaccharides)
a (1-4) glycosidic bonds in polysaccharides
Humans lack the enzymes that break
B (1-4) and a (1-6) glycosidic bonds present in cellulose/branched amylopectin and glycogen
GLUT (Glucose Transporters) (carriers)
responsible for the absorption of most of the products of digestion
Na+ independent GLUT
GLUT (1-4)
GLUT - 1
Erythrocytes and blood-brain barrier
GLUT - 2
liver, kidney and B-cells of pancreas
GLUT - 3
Neurons
GLUT - 4
Adipose tissue
GLUT -1, GLUT -3, GLUT - 4 involved
uptake of glucose from blood
GLUT - 2 transport
glucose into or out of cells
GLUT 5 uptake
of fructose in small intestines and testes
Cellular respiration
ATP molecules into ADP molecules thus cells must continually convert ADP molecules back into ATP molecules
Cytosol
the fluid (and suspended molecules of salts, sugars, amino acids, enzymes, etc) around the organelles
Cytoplasm
the cytosol plus the organelles suspended within it (i.e. everything EXCEPT the nucleus)
(Cytosol + Organelles)
Cell =
Plasma membrane + Cytoplasm + Nucleus
Advantages of Aerobic Respiration
- Major advan. —> more energy released
- Enough energy to produce up to 38 ATP
Advantages of Anaerobic Respiration
- Lets organisms live in places where there is little or no oxygen
- Quickly produces ATP
What stage of cellular respiration evolved before the others
Glycolysis
No oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere when
3.5 to 4 billion years ago
Without oxygen
anaerobic respiration
2 or 3 b. y. a. oxygen was gradually added to the atmosphere by
Early photosynthetic bacteria;
“oxygen catastrophe” —> aerobic organisms
Breathing Respiration
physical process that allows animals/humans to come into contact with gases in the air