gylcolysis Flashcards

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how does all the energy used by living cells come to them?

A

in the bonds of sugar glucose

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what is the first step in the breakdown of glucose?

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Glycolysis

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3
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what does the breakdown of glucose do

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extract energy for cellular metabolism

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what do all organism carry out as part of the metabolism?

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glycolysis

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5
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where does the gylycosis take pace in the prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells?

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cytoplasm

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what is the first way glycolysis enters heterotrophic cells?

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through secondary active transport in which the transport takes place against the glucose concentration gradient

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what is the second way glycosis enters heterotrophic cells

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by using a grp of integral proteins called glut

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What is GLUT

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glucose transporter proteins also assist in facilitating the diffusion of glucose.

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what does glycolysis begin with?

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six carbon ring shaped structure of a single glucose molecule

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10
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what does glycolysis end with?

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two molecules of three carbon sugar called pyruvate

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how many steps are in glycolysis

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10

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what happens in the second step of glycolysis

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energy is extracted from the molecules and stores it in the form of ATP and NADH

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what happens in the first part of the glycolysis?

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traps the glucose molecule in the cell and uses energy to modify it so that the Six carbon sugar molecule can be split evenly into three carbon molecules.

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