Respiration and Lipid Metabolism

Question 1

What is the chemical equation for the process of respiration?

Answer 1

C12H22O11 + 12 O2 -> 12 CO2 + 11 H2O

1. glycolysis
2. oxidative pentose phosphorylation pathway
3. citric acid cycle
4. oxidative phosphorylation

Question 2

What is the general process and role of glycolysis?

Question 3

What is the general process and role of oxidative phosphorylation?

Question 4

What is the general process and role of the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway?

Question 5

What is the general process and role of the citric acid cycle?

Question 6

How are respiratory pathways compartmentalized within plant cells?

Question 7

What are the roles of and relationships between NAD+, NADH, NADP+, and NADPH?

Question 8

What major steps occur during the conversion of sucrose to pyruvate?

Question 9

What major steps occur during the conversion of glucose 6-phosphate to G3P?

Question 10

What major steps occur during the breakdown of pyruvate into NADH and FADH2?

Question 11

What major steps occur during the utilization of NADH and FADH2 for ATP?

Question 12

What are the anatomical features of mitochondria?

Question 13

Why are carbon monoxide, cyanide, and nitric oxide toxic yet still tolerated by plants?

Question 14

What is the basic structure of triacylglycerols?

Question 15

What is the basic structure of polar glycolipids?

Question 16

What is the difference between triacylglycerols and polar glycolipids?

Question 17

Why is fat superior to starch as an energy storage material?

Question 18

Why do unsaturated fatty acids melt at lower temperatures than saturated ones?

Question 19

What is the composition and function of oil bodies in plant cells?

Question 20

What is the difference between glycolipids and glycerophospholipids and what cellular membranes are constituted of each?

Question 21

What are the basic processes of fatty acid and lipid metabolism and where do they occur?