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Catabolic Pathway and types

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molecules are broken down and their energy is released. catabolic pathways yield energy by oxidizing organic fuels

Types
Fermentation
Cellular Respiration

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What type of reaction is cellular respiration? what is it used for?

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exergonic, release energy from glucose to phosphorylate ADP to ATP

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What can be broken down for energy in cellular respiration, and what us mainly used?

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Carbs, fats and proteins can be used but glucose is the primary nutrient for it

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What is the cellular respiration reaction?

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C6H12O6+6O2▶️6CO2+6H2O

Exergonic

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NAD+

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A coenzyme that serves as an electron carrier in cellular respiration, it stabilizes to form NADH when it receives 2 electrons

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Glycolysis

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Location: Cytosol

What happens: Glucose(6 carbon) is broken down into 2 pyruvate molecules(2, 3 carbon sugars) and 2 water molecules

Phases:

  1. Energy investment, 2 ATP used, 2ADP+2P yielded. Glucose is destabilized and made more reactive
  2. Energy payoff phase: 4ADP+4P form 4ATP. 2NAD+, 4 electrons, and 4H+ yield 2 NADH+2H20

Net: +2ATP(4 gained 2 used)
2 NADH+2H+ from energy payoff phase

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What are the 2 NADH from glycolysis used for

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They are utilized in the electron transport system

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What happens between glycolysis and he citric acid cycle?

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Pyruvate is oxidized to Acetyl CoA. transport protein moves pyruvate from the cytosol to the mitochondrial matrix, where an enzyme complex removes CO2, strips away electrons to convert NAD+ to NADH and adds coenzyme A to form acetyl CoA(2 per glucose).

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Citric Acid cycle

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Location: Mitochondrial Matrix

Purpose: The task of breaking down glucose is completed with CO2 released as waste

What happens: One input of Acetyl CoA=1 turn of the cycle, meaning 2 turns completely oxidizes glucose

Result from 1 turn: 2CO2, 3NADH, 1FADH2, 1 ATP
*each glucose yields twice these

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What holds the energy in cellular respiration?

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The electrons within the electron carriers

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Oxidative Phosphoration

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Purpose: Chemiosmosis couples electron transport to ATP synthesis, includes ETC

Location: Inner mitochondrial membrane

What happens: the ETC takes H+ from NADH and FADH2 and pumps it from the mitochondrial matrix to the intermembrane space to create a gradient, which powers chemiosmosis. The H+ go to the end of the ETC where a final electron acceptor, typically O2, bonds with them

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Chemiosmosis

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ATP synthesis powered by the flow of H+ across the gradient created by the ETC. It is an energy coupling mechanism

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ATP Synthase

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A transmembrane protein in the mitochondrial membrane containing a channel where H ions flow back down their gradient

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Proton motive force

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The gradient of hydrogen ions that phosphorylates ADP to ATP

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How much ATP is yielded from Cellular Respiration? Oxidative phosphorylation?

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Cellular Respiration: 30-32

Oxidative Phosphorylation: 26-28

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Fermentation

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An expansion of glycolysis where ATP is generated by substrate level phosphorylation, with NAD+ being the electron acceptor instead of Oxygen

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Alcohol and lactic acid fermentation

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Alcohol: pyruvate is converted to ethanol, releasing CO2 and oxidizing NADH in the process to create more NAD+

Lactic Acid: Pyruvate is reduced by NADH while forming NAD+ and lactate is the waste product

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Facultative and obligate anaerobes

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Facultative: Can make ATP by aerobic respiration if oxygen is present but can switch to fermentation under anaerobic conditions

Obligate: Can not survive in the presence of oxygen

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Chloroplasts

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Location: Mesophyll tissue found in the interior of the leaf

Sites of photosynthesis

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Stroma

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A dense, fluid filled area. Enclosed by 2 membranes, made up of thylakoids. Sight of Calvin cycle

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Thylakoids/thylakoid space

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Vast network of interconnected sacs inside the stroma, segregating the stroma from the thylakoid space. Contains chlorophyll. Sight of light reactions

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Chlorophyll

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Location: thylakoid membranes

Light absorbing pigment that drives photosynthesis and gives plants green color

23
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Photosynthesis reaction

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6CO2+6H20+Light Energy▶️C6H12O6+6O2

Endergonic

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Light reactions

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Location: Thylakoid membranes

Products: NADPH, ATP and Oxygen gained, O2 released

What happens: Light is absorbed by chlorophyll and drives transfer of electrons from splitting water to NADP+, forming NADPH. ATP is generated using chemiosmosis to power photophosphorylation, when the electrons go down the ETC between photosystems. Electrons are providing from the splitting of water, where they then enter photosystem II. O2 is released into the atmosphere from here. After PII, electrons are transmitted to NADP+, forming NADPH for the calvin cycle

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Calvin cycle

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Location: Stroma

3 CO2 molecules are used to make 1 G3P, used one at a time. 3 of then are attached 5 carbon molecules of Rubisco Biphosphate(RuBP). The reactions that fix carbon are catalyzed by the enzyme rubisco.

Phases:
1. Carbon fixation: 6 ATP and 6 NADPH used.

  1. Output: G3P released
  2. Regeneration of RuBP: 3ATP used
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Pigments

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Absorb specific wavelengths of light

27
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Photosystems

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Location: Thylakoid membrane of chloroplasts

Groups of pigment molecules that absorb photons

Parts: Light harvesting complex and reaction center

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Light harvesting complex

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Made up of many chlorophyll and carotenoid molecules, allowing light to gather effectively. When the chlorophyll absorbs photons, one of the molecule’s electrons is raised to a higher orbital of potential energy, putting the chlorophyll in an excited state.

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Reaction center

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Consists of two chlorophyll a molecules, which donate the electrons(oxidizing) to the second primary electron acceptor(solar powered). This is the first step of the light reactions

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linear(cyclic) electron flow

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the key to light reactions, the flow of electrons through the photosystems in the thylakoid membranes

31
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Where does chemiosmosis take place during photosynthesis?

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thylakoid space

32
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In what instances is H+ moved from the stroma to the thlykoid space?

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  1. Splitting of water
  2. Pumping of electrons across the membrane by the cytochrome complex
  3. NADP+ is reduced to NADPH take H+ from stroma
33
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C4 plants

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CO2 is added to PEO to form a 4 carbon compound called oxaloacetate, which does not combine with O2 instead of CO2 to cause photorespiration

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CAM plants.

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Close stomata during the day to prevent water loss, CO2 is stored in organic acids and are released in the morning when the stomata close

35
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Compare and contrast the differents types of photosynthesis

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Similar: In both C4 and CAM-CO2 is transformed into an organic intermediate before it enters the calvin cycle. All processes use calvin cycle

Different: Different methods are used to get to the calvin cycle

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Homologous chromosomes

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both chromosomes of each pair carry genes that control the same inherited characteristics

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Interphase

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  • Chromosomes duplicate, doubling amount of DNA in the cell

* Centromere divides

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Prophase 1

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  • Chromosomes condense, resulting in 2 sister chromatids attached at their centromeres
  • Synapsis/Crossing over
  • Centrioles move away from each other
  • Nuclear envelope disintegrates
  • Spindles microtubules attach to kinetochures and metaphase begins
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Synapsis

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joining of homologous chromosomes along their length

40
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Result of meiosis 1

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2 haploid daughter cells

41
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Prophase 2

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  • Spindle forms

* Sister chromatids move towards metaphase plate

42
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What occurs in meiosis and not mitosis?

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  1. Crossing over/synapsis
  2. homologous chromosomes are positioned along the metaphase plate instead of individual replicated chromosomes
  3. In anaphase 1, duplicated sister chromatids stay together, while they separate in mitosis
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Sources of genetic variation

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  1. Crossing over
  2. Independent Assortment of chromosomes: In metaphase 1, homologous chromosomes line up on the metaphase plate, paired up in any combination with any pairs facing either pole. This gives a 50% chance of getting a pair from each parent
  3. Random fertilization: Each egg and sperm are different because of independent assortment and crossing over, making each egg and sperm combo unique
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codominance

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two alleles are dominant and effect the phenotype in two separate but equal ways(blood types)

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Pleiotropy

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property of one gene to have multiple phenotypic effects

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Epistasis

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a gene at one loci effects a gene at another loci

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Polygenic inheritence

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two or more genes have an additive effect on a single character in the phenotype