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producers

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organisms that can use energy ffrom the sun to produce food through photosynthesis (plants on land, and phytoplankton in water)

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consumers

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organisms that obtain their energy by eating plants (herbivores eat directly, carnivores, indirectly by eating other animals that have eaten plants)

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photosynthesis

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  1. using energy from sunlight (carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water)
  2. glucose (C6H12O6) is made
  3. oxygen is released as a “waste” product
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cellular respiration

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  1. glucose is broken down using oxygen
  2. energy in glucose is converted to energy carried by ATP (energy to do work in the cell)
  3. carbon dioxide and water are released as waste products
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cycle or circle of life

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  • consists of photosynthesis and cellular respiration
  • plants need oxygen and carbon dioxide and we provide that becase that is what we breathe out or have as waste products
  • vice versa we need oxygen, and that is what plants release
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the human body uses ___

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-atp for almost all of its activities

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Life sustaining activities use as much as ___

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75% of the energy a person takes in as food a day (heart beat breathing, maintaining body temperature, digesting food etc)

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efficiency of cellular respiration

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  • car engines are only able to convert about 35% of the potential energy in gasoline into kinetic energy to move the car (most of the rest is heat)
  • similarly, cellular respiration is able to harvest about 34% of the potential energy in glucose and store it in ATP (most of the rest is heat)
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how breathing is related to cellular respiration

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-when we inhale, we breathe in oxygen
-oxygen is delivered to cells where it is used by cellular respiration
-carbon dioxide, a waste product of cellular respiration, diffuses from your cells to your blood and travels to your lungs where is is exhaled
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steps of cellular respiration

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  1. glycolysis
  2. citric acid cycle (krebs cycle)
  3. electron transport chain
    * goal = generate as much ATP as possible
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glycolysis

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  • glycol (glucose), lysis (to break)
  • takes place in the cytoplasm
  • glucose (6C) is broken in half into two molecules of pyruvic acid (3C)
  • high energy hydrogen electrons are carried to Electron Transport Chain (ETC)
  • some ATP is generated (2 ATP)
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citric acid cycle

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  • pyruvic acid (3C) moves into mitochondria
  • a complicated cycle where the sugar is broken down completely (C-H bonds broken; carbons are removed releasing carbon dioxide which is why we breath out carbon dioxide)
  • some ATP generated (2 ATP)
  • higher energy hydrogen electrons are carried to ETC
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electron transport chain

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  • ETC
  • high energy hydrogen electrons are dropped off and they move through ETC
  • this is where most of the ATP is generated
  • oxygen is at the bottom of the ETC, pulling the electrons through the chain
  • thus, oxygen powers the ETC, generating ATP (and also some water)
  • electrons give up some of their energy by pumping H+ across the membrane through electron carriers
  • H+ can only flow back across the membrane through ATP Synthase
  • as H+ flows through ATP Synthase, the energy is used to generate ATP
  • produces about 28 ATP
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ATP Synthase

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an enzyme that generates ATP

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total ATP formed from one molecule of glucose

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about 32 ATPs

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each ATP contains about ___ of the then ___

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  • ?%

- energy in one molecule of glucose

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rotenone

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to kill insects and fish (blocks electron transport

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cyanide and carbon monoxide

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block electron transport (which stops ATP production, can kill you)

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DNP

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-leaks H+ across membranes, banned weightloss drug
people would lose weight without doing anything
-dangerous because not releasing any heat

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olygomycin

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  • blocks ATP Synthase

- used against fungi

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fermentation

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  • an anaerobic alternative to aerobic respiration
  • yeasts, some bacteria, and our muscle cells can break down sugar without using oxygen
  • small amount of ATP generated (2ATP per molecule of glucose)
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anaerobic

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without oxygen

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aerobic

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with oxygen (cellular respiration)

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types of fermentation

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  1. lactic acid

2. alcoholic fermentation

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lactic acid fermentation

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  • working muscle cells that are not getting enough oxygen can generate a small amount of ATP (2 ATP per molecule of glucose through glycolysis)
  • lactic acid is produced (may contribute to muscle pain)
  • used to make cheese and yogurt
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alcoholic fermentation

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  • some yeasts are able to harvest a small amount of ATP from sugars without oxygen using glycolysis (yields 2 ATPs per molecule of glucose)
  • ethanol is produced (yeast is used to break down sugar in making beer, wine, and liquor)
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why can’t we survive using fermentation alone?

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  • cellular respiration (with ETC) is much more efficient that fermentation at generating ATP (16x more efficient; 32 vs 2 ATPs)
  • our bodies require more ATPs than we could get through fermentation alone

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