Chapter 24 Flashcards
What is cellular respiration?
Consist of Krebs cycle, glycolysis, and oxidative phosphorylation
Oxidation
Reactions that take place within a cell an example is the rusting of iron
What are oxidation Reduction Reactions
Coupled reaction since the oxidized substance loses its energy while redox substances gain energy
How do redox reactions gain energy?
When electrons are transferred to energy-rich substances
What is an example of oxidative redox reactions?
As food fuels are oxidized their energy is transformed to other molecules to go from ADP to ATP for energy
What is Oxidases?
Enzymes catalyst transfer of oxygen
What is dehydrogenase?
The catalyst in redox atoms that causes the removal of hydrogen atoms
What are Coenzymes
Hydrogen acceptors and become reduced each time a substrate is oxidized
What are the important coenzymes?
NAD(Nacin) and FAD (riboflavin)
What is substrate-level phosphorylation?
High energy phosphate groups are transferred from phosphorylated substances to ADP
What Oxidative Phosphate?
Releases energy that is captured by ATP bonds during cellular respiration.
How is oxidative phosphorylation carried out?
By the electron transport chain that has embedded proteins in their inner mitochondria.
What is Glycolysis?
This is glucose that is pivotal fuel molecule in oxidative reactions
Where does Glycolysis occur?
In the cytosol
What is converted in glycolysis?
Glucose to 2 Pyruvic Acid
Which step is reversible in glycolysis?
First Step
What is the first phase of Glycolysis?
Sugar is activated by glucose being phosphorylated 2 which converts to fructose 1,6 bisphosphate
What is the second phase of glycolysis?
Frutose 1,6 bisphoshpate is split into 2 3-carbon fragments ?
What are the 2, 3-carbon fragments in the second phase of glycolysis?
Glyceraldye and 3-phosphate
What is the third phase?
The removal of hydrogen oxidizes the 3 carbon fragments that is picked up. by NAD+. The inorganic pi is attached to oxidized fragments by high energy bonds.
What happens when enough energy is captured from in the third phase of Glycolysis?
Forms 4 ATP molecules when the terminal phosphates splits.
What are the final products of Glycolysis?
2 Pryruvic Acid and 2 NAD + H
What is the fate of the Pryuvic Acid?
Glycolysis can only continue based on the availability of oxygen when pyruvic acid is produced.
How can glycolysis continue?
If the reduced coenzymes (NAD+H) is relieved of one of its extra H
How can lactic acid occur?
When 2 additional H are dumped into pyruvic acid and some are diffused out the cell into the liver
What is the Kreb Cycle?
The next stage of glucose oxidation
Where does the Krebs Cycle Occur?
In the mitochondria matrix fueled by pyruvic acid and fatty acids
When can pyruvic acid enter the mitochondria?
It has to have charged molecules where active transport is required. Then the transition phase occurs
What happens during the transition phase?
Pyruvic Acid is converted to Acetic Acid