Unit 6- Metabolic Pathways: Flashcards
What are Anabolic reactions?
They store energy
What are catabolic reactions?
They release energy
What happens in anabolic reactions?
Produce and use carbohydrates
Light energy in photosynthesis is converted to sugars
Heat is released
What happens in catabolic reactions?
Breaks the bonds between carbon, hydrogen and oxygen- exergonic
heat is released- this is where thermodynamics comes into play
Conversion is not 100% efficient
In redox reactions, what happens in Reduction?
gain of an electron(s) by a molecule
What happens during oxidation?
loss of an electron(s) by a molecule
What is the reduction of CO2 to form sugars and the oxidation of water
photosynthesis
_________ oxidizes oxygen to produce water and ________ is the waste product
Aerobic respiration and carbon dioxide
What stores a lot of energy?
Carbon to hydrogen bonds
What also stores a lot of energy?
Carbon to carbon bonds
What releases energy?
The breaking of the bonds
________serve as oxidizing agents, accepting a pair of electrons, along with one or more protons to switch to their reduced forms
Coenzymes
Explain the product NADPH
NADP+ accepts 2 electrons- and 1 H+ to becomes NADPH in oxygenic photosynthesis
What is NADPH?
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
NAD+
is oxidized
NADH
is reduced
What is FAD?
the other coenzyme in cellular respiration
What does FAD stand for?
Flavin adenine dinucleotide
In Photosynthesis…
H is released to form water
During photosynthesis, water is split where?
Water is split in the chloroplast
What happens in Photosynthesis?
Water is split in the chloroplast
Then Hydrogen from water are used to make water in another part of the chloroplast
They need to be carried or else they would acidify in the chloroplast’s cytoplasm
Electron carrier
NADP- PICKS UP HYDROGEN ATOMS IN PHOTOSYNTHESIS
In Respiration…
2 coenzymes that will pick up H atoms
In respiration, As sugars are being oxidized
- H released from sugars
To keep the cytoplasm of the mitochondrion stable-
NADH AND FAD are the two electron carriers
What does ATP stand for?
Adenosine Triphosphate
What is ATP?
Energy currency for cells
ATP is ___stored; ____used
Briefly/quickly