Metabolim Flashcards
Free energy
Energy available to do work
Delta G
Change in free energy during chemical reaction
How does a molecule’s stability relate to free energy?
More stable something is less ability to do work
- lower free energy
Catabolic reaction
Exergonic reaction ( energy being released)
- products have less free energy then reactants
- negative delta G
Anabolic reaction
Endergonic (energy put in)
- products have more free energy then reactants
- positive delta G
Oxidation
Loss of electrons
Reduction
Gain of electrons
Is NAD+ being reduced or oxidized when durned into NADH+
Reduced
What kind of molecule is NADH ? What does it do?
Electron acceptor - it donates/ accepts electrons from and to various pieces in cellular respiration
What are ways in which organisms can convert high energy electrons into food?
Via redox reactions
What are the steps of cellular (aerobic) respiration and where does it occur?
- Glycolysis
- Intermediate step
- Kreb cycle ( citric acid cycle)
- all in cytoplasm
- Electron transport chain
- plasma membrane
Glycolysis input
2 atp
1 glucose molecule
Glycolysis output
2 pyruvate
4 atp - 2 net gain
NADH (x2)
How is atp made in glycolysis
Substrate level phosphorylation
Intermediate step is also known as
Oxidation of pyruvate
What goes in to the oxygenation of pyruvate
2 pyruvate
What comes out of intermediate step (oxygenation of pyruvate)
Acetyl coA - which brings carbons into kreb cycle
- NADH & co2
(X2)
For one glucose molecule how many times does oxidation of pyruvate happen
2 time
Citric acid (kreb cycle) input
Acetyl- coA (x2)
Citric acid cycle output
2 co2 -4
ATP - 2
3 NADH -6
FADH -2
(X2)
Electron transport chain input
10 NADH & 2 FADH
Output of electron transport chain
ATP!!!! Lots
Steps of electron transport chain
- Electrons move down etc via redox reaction
- electrons come from NADH carriers - H+ is pumped to other side of membrane when protein receives e-
- Last h+ goes through atp synthase
- oxygen is final electron acceptor making h20
Proton gradient (h+) powers atp synthase
True or False
True : creates atp