Exam 3_Chapter 6 Cellular Respiration:Obtaining Energy From Food (go back to page 97, to understand) Flashcards
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What does every cell require in cellular respiration?
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oxygen
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When there is enough oxygen reaching muscles to support need it’s anaerobic or aerobic?
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Aerobic
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If you work harder and exced the demand for oxygen your muscle can use, then this is called?
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anaerobic
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the energy of sunlight is converted to the chemical energy of sugars and other molecules called?
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photosynthesis
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where does photosynthesis take place?
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in chloroplasts of plants and algae, some prokaryotes
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plants and other autotrophs are referred to as?
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producers
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Heterotrophs are referred as?
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consumers?
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what does cellular respiration do?
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uses O2 to convert sugar chemical energy bonds to ATP
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What are the waste products of cellular respiration
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CO2 and H2O
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Do plants do cellular resp?
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Si
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What does respiration mean?
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Breathing
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Cellular respiration isn’t an aerobic process. T or F?
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False
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Does aerobic processes require oxygen?
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Yes
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The aerobic harvesting of chemical energy from organic fuel molecules is called
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cellular respiration
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Cellular respiration constitutes every metabolic pathways for nearly every Eukarytoic cell. True or False
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True
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what 3 main stages are a part of cellular respspiration?
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glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and electron transport
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A molecule of glucose is split into two molecules of a compound called pyruvic acid is called?
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Glycolysis
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Where are the enzymes for glycolysis located?
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The cytoplasm
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Completes the breakdown of glucose all the way to CO2
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Citric acid cycle
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Where are the enyzmes located that are used for the citric acid cycle?
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mitochondria
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What is NAD+?
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nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide; a molecule made form niacin
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The electron transfer forms a molecule called?
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NADH
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How does the electron transport chain work?
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electrons captured from food by NADH until finally combined with Oxygen to form water
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How many ATP molecules are produced from cellular respiration.
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32 ATP
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what stage of c. r. take place outside mitochondria?
Gylcolysis
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what stage of c.r takes place inside mitoc.
citric acid cycle and electron transport chain
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what does glycolysis mean?
splitting of sugar
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What happens during glycolysis?
six carbon glucose molecules broken in half forming 2 3-carbon molecules but requires 2 ATP
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What's the 2nd step of glycolysis?
3 carbon molecules donate electrons to NAD+ forming NADH
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When enzymes transfer phosphate groups molecules to ADP from fuel molecules, how many ATP molecules are made and how?
4
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What's the profit of ATP in glycolysis?
2 ATP molecules
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what are the remains after glycolysis is achieved?
2 Pyruvic acid molecules
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What must happen to pyruvic acid before it's used in the citric acid cycle?
lt's groomed and loses a carbon atom, leading to CO2
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The remaining 2-carbon molecules are called after pyruvic acid loses a carbon are __?
Acetic acid
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What happens to the acetic acid in the citric acid cycle?
their electrons are stripped and transfered to NAD+ forming NADH
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What happens to the acetic acid after it's been stripped of its electrons are used to make NADH.
they are attached to a Coenzyme A to form acetyl CoA
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What is Coenzyme A (CoA)?
Vitamin B Pantothenic acid
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Electrons are transferred from glucose molecules to ___? in the citric acid cycle.
NAD+
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In the citric acid cycle, NAD+ gets converted to what?
NADH
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What is acetic acid and an acceptor molecule converted into in the citric acid cycle?
to Citric acid!!
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For every acetic acid molecule that enters the cycle as fuel, how many molecules of CO2 exit as waste?
2
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Two molecules of what compound are produced by glycolysis?
Pyruvic acid
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Does pyruvic acid enter the citric acid cycle?
No, it must be converter to acetic acid
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Pyruvic acid must travel from the ___, where glycolysis takes place, to the ___, where the citric acid cycle takes place.
cytoplasm, mitochondria
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The citric acid cycle captures much more energy in the form ___?
of NADH and FADH2
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How many times does the citric acid cycle occur for each glucose molecule that fuels the cell?
twice
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What happens to the NADH in the citric acid cycle?
They send two electrons in the electron transport chain.
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What does glucose in food molecules transfer to NAD+?
electrons
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What is NADH used for in the electron transport chain for mitochondrias?
releases 2 electrons to a series of electron carrier molecules aka the Electron Transport Chain
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After the electrons bounce through the electron transport chain in cell. resp. what happens next?
uses it to make ATP
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The first molecule of electron transport chain accepts what?
Electrons from NADH
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Where does NADH get its electrons from?
Glucose and food molecules
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What does oxygen do specifically in cellur. respir.?
it pull down the electrons, sort of like gravity, from top to bottom, the electrons travel down the e.t. chain.
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what are the electron grabbers called in cel. resp.?
oxygen, really...
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what is formed after the electrons complete the electron transport chain?
water
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how is ATP created in the electron transport chain?
As electrons tranfer from top to bottom of the electron transport chain, they release small amounts of energy which go into making ATP, almost like a wind generator.
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where are the molecules of the transport chains built in cellular respiration?
in the inner membranes of the mitochondria
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why are mitochondria inner membranes folded?
so they can accomodate for more surface area and over 1000's of electron transport chains
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Why is the fall of electrons through the e.t.c important. Like what occurs as it's doing that?
It causes a shift in the hydrogen atoms across the inner membrane of the mitochondria, creating potential energy.
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What is the hydrogen used for in the c.r.?
it's used to combine with oxygen to make water
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what does the inner membrane of the mitochondria do to Hydrogen atoms?
it temporarily "dams" them from losing potential energy, similar to a water dam
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What are atp synthase?
proteins adjacent to electron transport chain that help create ATP
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What do NADH and FADH2 do?
transfer electrons down the electron transport chain.
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What does H+ do?
rushes back down the membrane through ATP synthase
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What does ATP synthase do?
helps attach phosphate group to ADP
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How does cyanide kill organism?
blocking the flow of electrons to oxygen, thus no H+ gradient
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What is the potential energy source that drives ATP production by ATP synthase?
a concentration gradient of H+ across the inner membrane of a mitochondrion.
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How many ATP molecules is produced from the electron transport chain?
28
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How many atp do glycolysis and the citric acid cycle contribute?
2 ATP total.
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which molecules supplies the electrons in the electron transport chain?
NADH or FADH2
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What other fuels can be used besides glucose in cel. resp.?
Fat and proteins
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What does Anaerobic mean?
without oxygen
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The anaerobic harvest of food energy is called
fermentation
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What does fermentation rely on?
Glycolysis?
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Why is anaerobic inefficient?
because it only produce 2 ATP molecules, and consumes much more glucose
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In anaerobic cellular respiration, how does glycolysis get its NAD+ if it can't get it from the electron transport chain?
It gets it when leftover NADH transfers its electron to pyruvic acid in glycolysis. Allowing for NAD+
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The addition of electrons to pyruvic acid is called ___?
lactic acid
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Where does lactic acid go after it's created in cellular respiration?
It go to the liver where it gets converted back to pyruvic acid
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Does glycolysis need oxygen to make ATP
NO
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What molecules does glycolysis need to function and produce ATP
NAD+
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In an anaerobic environment, yeast cells converter sugars into ___?
Ethyl alcohol
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Yeast is capable of ___ and ___?
cellular respiration and fermentation
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When fermenting bread, what is the by product of it?
CO2 and ethyl alcohol
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What is the primary thing that happens in glycolysis?
splitting of glucose into pyruvic acid
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What energy ATP process was used by the first prokaryotes primarily?
Glycolysis
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Autotrophs make organic molecules from inorganic molecules through a process called ___?
photosynthesis
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Heterotrophs consume organic matter and convert it to energy through a process called ___?
cellular respiration
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The molecules outputs of cellular respiration and the molecular inputs of photosynthesis are what two molecules?
H20 and CO2
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How many oxygen is required in the beginning of cellular respiration?
6 oxygen
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What are the end products after 1 glucose molecule gets converted in cell. resp.?
6CO2 and 6H2O and 32 ATP molecules
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During glycolysis, what happens to glucose when its split apart?
creates 2 pyruvic acids, 2 molecules of ATP, 2 high energy electrons stored in NADH
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What happens during the citric acid cycle? Name 3 things
remaining glucose molecules converter to CO2, electrons are transferred to NADH and FADH2, and some ATP produced
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What does the electron transport chain use the high energy electrons for?
pumping it through the et chain, causing a build up of H+ ions across the inner membrane, then handing them off to Oxygen producing water.
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How is ATP finally produced in electron transport chain?
when backflow of H+ ions powers ATP synthase, forming ATP from ADP
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When muscle cells consume O2 faster than cellular respiration is being supplied, the system becomes. ___?
anaerobic
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What do the first two stages of cellular respiration primarily release?
high-energy electrons carried by NADH
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Which stage of cellular respiration produces the bulk of the ATP molecules?
The electron Transport stage
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Where does muscle cells get its ATP when anaerobic?
From fermentation through glycolysis
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What are the waste products of fermentation?
ethyl alcohol, lactic acid
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