Energy/Cell Respiration Flashcards
Free energy
amount of energy available to do work
Chemical Potential Energy
Function of electron configuration and position
Electron potential energy based on
- Position relative to +/- charges
- Closer to neg. = higher PE
exergonic
spontaneous, releases energy
endergonic
not spontaneous, absorbs energy
Energetic coupling
- allow chem energy released from one reaction to drive another
- Transfer of high energy electrons or a phosphate group
Phosphorylation
addition of phosphate group to a substrate
Cellular respiration
exergonic process that transfers energy from bonds in glucose to form ATP
Cellular respiration 3 steps
- Glycolysis
- Pyruvate oxidation and citric acid cycle
- electron transport and chemiosmosis(oxidative phosphorylation)
Glycolosis
- Occurs in the cytosol
- Begins cellular respiration
- breaks down glucose into two molecules of three-carbon compound pyruvate
- Ancient: occurs in cytoplasm and doesn’t need co2
Glycolysis simplified

ATP formed in glycolosis by
substrate level phosphorylation
substrate-level phosphorylation
enzyme transfrers a phosohate group from substrate to ADP and forms ATP
Pyruvate Oxidation and the citric acid cycle
- Takes place in the mitochondria
- Oxidizes pyruvate (3C) to a two-carbon compound
- supplies third stage with e-
Pyruvate oxidation
- Carboxyl group removed as CO2
- C compound oxidized and NAD+ reduced to NADH
- Coenzyme A binds with 2 C molecule
Citric Acid Cycle
- process 2 acetyl coA for each initial glucose
- after 2 turns:
- 2 Co2
- 2ATP
- 6NADH
- 2FADH2
Oxadative Phosphorylation
- ETC and chemiosmosis combined
ETC
- NADH oxidized
- FADH2 oxidized
- 2H++1/2H2O made into water
- Pumps H+ ions to intermembrane space to power atp synthase
ATP Synthase
enzyme that turns ADP into ATP
Chemiosmosis
- The movement of ions across a selectively permeable membrane, down their electrochemical gradient.
- Force from gradient spins shaft in F1 unit-change conformation of F1 in a way that catalyzes phosphorylation of ADP to ATP
Anerobic e- acceptors
NO3-
SO42-
Fermentation
- Harvest chemical E without O2
- Glycolysis
- 2nd step recycle NAD+
- Occurs in cytoplasm