Cellular Respiration

The Basics

100

This process converts glucose to cellular energy

What is cellular respiration?

200

This molecule stores energy in its phosphate bonds and releases it when a phosphate group is removed

What is ATP?

300

This optional off ramp is taken when the cell doesn’t have oxygen

What is fermentation

400

This process and cellular respiration are complementary because the products of one are the reactants of the other

What is photosynthesis?

500

Approximately this many ATP molecules can be produced from one glucose molecule during aerobic cellular respiration

What is 36-38 ATP?

Glycolysis

100

Glycolysis is one of the only parts of cellular respiration that can function with or without this vital molecule

What is oxygen?

200

Glycolysis takes place in this part of the cell

What is the cytoplasm?

300

Two of these 3-carbon molecules are created by the end of this process

What are pyruvic acids/pyruvates?

400

Glycolysis produces this amount of ATP in it's process (not net amount)

What are 4 ATP?

500

During glycolysis, electrons are given to this molecule to make NADH

What is NAD⁺?

Krebs Cycle

100

This is the nickname sometimes used for the Krebs Cycle

What is the citric acid cycle?

200

These 2-carbon molecules are made before going into the Krebs cycle

What is Acetyl-CoA

300

For each glucose molecule, the Krebs cycle turns this many times

What is two?

400

This much NADH is produced by the end of this cycle

What is six?

500

The Krebs cycle begins by combining the 2-carbon molecule with this 4-carbon molecule

What is oxaloacetate

Electron Transport Chain

100

Electrons carried by NADH and FADH₂ are carried into this part of the aerobic respiration process

What is the Electron Transport Chain?

200

This part of the mitochondria is where the ETC takes place

What is the inner membrane?

300

DAILY DOUBLE: Oxygen holds this vital role in the ETC as without it, the ETC cannot function

What is the final electron acceptor?

400

Oxygen can combine with hydrogen ions and electrons to form this well-known molecule

What is water (H₂O)?

500

This enzyme helps create the bonds needed to make ATP and also shares a similar name to one used in DNA replication

What is ATP synthase?

Vocabulary

100

This 6-carbon molecule is one of the primary reactants used in the cellular respiration process

What is glucose?

200

This organelle is where the Krebs Cycle and the ETC takes place

What is the mitochondria?

300

What is the form of ATP correlating with a “half-charged battery”

What is ADP?

400

This is the process that helps the pyruvate get primed for the Krebs Cycle

What is the transition reaction?

500

The gradient along used in the ETC powers ATP production

What is the proton gradient