Respiration Flashcards
All the energy required for life processes is obtained by ________ of some macromolecules -food .
Oxidation
Only _____and ______ can prepare their own food .
Green plants
Cyanobacteria
By the process of photosynthesis , green plants trap LIGHT energy and convert it to ____ that is stored in the _________ .
Chemical energy
Bonds of carbs like GLUCOSE ,SUCROSE and STARCH
In green plants ,all cells ,tissues and organs photosynthesise .T/F
F
In green plants , other organs and cells that are non-green , need food for _____.
Oxidation
Only cells containing ___ often located in the superficial layers .
Chloroplasts
_______is the breakdown of food materials within the cell to release energy and the trapping of this energy for synthesis of ATP .
Cellular respiration
Cellular respiration takes place in the ______and ______.
Cytoplasm
Mitochondria
Cellular respiration takes place in pro/eukaryotes ?
Only eukaryotes
The breaking of the _______bonds of ____ compounds through _____within the cels , leads to release of energy and is called respiration .
C-C bonds
Complex
Oxidation
The compounds that are OXIDISED during respiration are called -
Respiratory substrates
Usually carbs are oxidised to release energy , but ____,_____ and even ____ can be used as respiratory substrates in SOME PLANTS under CERTAIN CONDITIONS .
Proteins
Fats
Organic acids
Energy is released in a series of ____ reactions controlled by _____.
Slow step-wise
Enzymes
The energy released by oxidation ______ directly but is used to synthesise ______ , which is broken down whenever energy needs to be utilised .
Is not used / cannot be used
ATP
____ produced during respiration is used as precursors for biosynthesis of other molecules in the cell .
Carbon skeleton
Give the reasons why plants can get without respiratory organs ?
1) each plant takes care of its own gaseous needs , there is very little transport of gases from one part to another .
2) plants do not present great demands for gas exchange .
3) the distance that gases must diffuse even in large bulky plants is not great .
When cells PHOTOSYNTHESISE , availability of __ is not a problem in these cells . Why ?
O2
Since O2 is released within the cells
In stems , the cells in the interior are __ and provide ______.
Dead
Only mechanical support
Most cells of the plant have at least a part of their surface in contact with the _.
AIR
Loose packing of _____cells provide a interconnected network of AIR SPACES .
Parenchyma
In stems , the ___ cells are organised in thin layers inside and beneath the BARK .
Living cells
The strategy that the plant cells use is to catabolise the glucose molecule i such a way that _____
Not all the liberated energy goes out as heat
What is the key of the strategy adopted by plant cells to catabolise glucose molecule ?
The key is to catabolise glucose molecule not in one step but in several small steps enabling some steps to be large enough such that the energy release can be coupled with ATP SYNTHESIS .
During respiration. _ is utilised , and _ ,__ and _____ are released .
O2
CO2, H2O and energy
The __reaction in respiration requires O2 .
Combustion
Exceptions - facultative or obligate anaerobes do not require O2 .
In any case ,ALL LIVING organisms retain the enzymatic machinery to ___ glucose without the help of ____ .
Partially oxidise
O2
The breakdown of glucose to __is called GLYCOLYSIS .
Pyruvic acid
The schemes of GLYCOLYSIS was given by ___ ,_____ and _____ therefore it is also called EMP pathway .
Gustav Embden
Otto Meyerhoff
J. Parnas
In __organisms , glycolysis is the only process in respiration .
Anaerobic
Glycolysis occurs in the _____ of the cell and is present in all living organisms .
Cytoplasm (cytosol )
In glycolysis , glucose undergoes ___ to form 2 molecules of pyruvic acid .
Partial oxidation
In plants , the GLUCOSE for glycolysis is derived from _____.
Sucrose - (end product of photosynthesise)
Or from some storage carb
Sucrose is converted to glucose and fructose by the enzyme ______.
Invertase
Which 2 monosaccharides readily enter the GLYCOLYTIC PATHWAY .
Glucose
Fructose
Glucose and fructose are PHOSPHORYLATED to give rise to ______ by the activity of the enzyme ____
Glucose-6-phosphate
Hexokinase
(1st step)
In the 2nd step , the phosphorylated form of GLUCOSE ISOMERISES to produce _______.
Fructose-6-phosphate
Glucose6phosphate ———->fructose6phosphate
The steps of metabolism of glucose and _____are same .
Fructose
In glycolysis , a chain of _______ rxns under the control of diff /same enzymes , takes place to produce pyruvate from glucose .
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Diff
During glycolysis , ___or ____ of ATP or ____ takes place .
Utilisation
Synthesis
NADH + H+
ATP is UTILISED IN ____ steps . What are they ?
2
1) in the conversion of glucose to glucose-6-phosphate
2) fructose-6-phosphate to fructose-1,6-bisphosphate
ATP is synthesised in ____steps in glycolysis . WHAT are they ?
2
1) BPGA (1,3- bisphosphoglyceric acid )——->PGA (3-phosphoglyceric acid )
2) PEP ——> pyruvic acid
The fructose-1,6 bisphosphate is split into _____and _____.
Dihydroxyacetone phosphate
PGAL (3-phosphoglyceraldehyde )
In glycolysis , there are _____ steps in which NADH +. H+ is formed from NAD. Which ?
1
PGAL. ———————-> BPGA
(3-phosphoglyceraldehyde). 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate
2 _____ are removed in the form of _____ (during the conversion of PGAL to BPGA ) from _____ and transferred to _____.
Redox-equivalents
2 H atoms
PGAL
NAD+
PGAL is oxidised with ______ to get converted into BPGA .
Inorganic phosphate
The conversion of BPGA to ______ is also an energy yielding process .
PGA
The metabolic fate of pyruvate depends on the ________ .
Cellular need
There are ____ ways in which diff cells handle pyruvic acid produced by glycolysis . What are they ?
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Lactic acid fermentation
Alcoholic fermentation
Aerobic respiration
Fermentation takes place under _____conditions in many _____ and ______.
Anaerobic
Prokaryotes
Unicellular eukaryotes
For the COMPLETE oxidation of glucose into ___ and ____ ,organisms adopt _______ .
CO2
H2O
Kreb’s cycle
Kreb’s cycle is also called -
Aerobic respiration
Req O2 supply
In fermentation , say by YEAST , the ____oxidation of glucose is achieved under _______ conditions by sets of rxns where __ is converted to ____ and ___ .
Incomplete
Anaerobic
Pyruvic acid
CO2 and ethanol
The enzymes ____ and _____ catalyse the rxns btw pyruvic acid ——->CO2 and ethanol .
Pyruvic acid decarboxylase
Alcohol dehydrogenase
The conversion of PYRUVIC ACID to CO2 and ethanol is the ________ of glucose .
Incomplete oxidation
In the muscles during exercise , where O2 is inadequate for cellular respiration , PYRUVIC ACID is reduced to _____ by ______.
Lactic acid
Lactate dehydrogenase
When pyruvic acid is reduced to lactic acid , the reducing agent is -
NADH. +. H+
(Which is reoxidised to NAD+
Organisms like _____produce LACTIC ACID from PYRUVIC ACID .
Some bacteria 🧫
In both _____ and ______ , not much energy is released .
LACTIC ACID and ALCOHOL fermentation
_____% of energy in glucose is released in fermentation(bth lactic acid and alcohol) and not all of it is trapped as high energy bonds of ATP
Less than 7%
Fermentation ( both alcoholic and lactic acid ) are ______ because ______.
Hazardous
Either acid or alcohol is produced
Yeasts poison themselves to death when the conc of ___ reaches about ____%.
Alcohol
13%
_____ is the process that leads to the __________of organic substances in the presence of oxygen and release CO2 , H2O and LARGE AMOUNT OF energy .
Aerobic respiration
Complete oxidation
Aerobic respiration is most common in ________.
Higher organisms
Aerobic respiration in eukaryotes takes place within the ______.
Mitochondria
For aerobic respiration to take place , pyruvate is transported from _____to ____.
Cytoplasm
Mitochondria
Give the 2 crucial events in aerobic respiration -
1) complete oxidation of pyruvate by the stepwise removal of all H atoms , leaving 3 molecules of CO2 .
2) passing on of e- removed as part of the H atoms to mol O2 with simultaneous synthesis of ATP .
The complete oxidation of pyruvate by the stepwise removal of all H atoms leaving __________ molecules of ______ is the 1st step of aerobic respiration .
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CO2