Cellular Respiration
Combustion and respiration are very similar and even release the same amount of energy. However, in combustion, energy is released in the form of heat, while in respiration, energy is released in the form of this.
What is ATP?
This is the starting material of glycolysis.
Pyruvate is the substrate for this enzyme.
What is pyruvate dehydrogenase?
The Krebbs Cycle occurs in this part of the cell.
What is the mitochondrial matrix?
The electron transport chain is located here.
What is the inner mitochondrial membrane?
What is metabolic pathway?
This is the end product of glycolysis.
The oxidation of pyruvate happens here.
What is the mitochondrial matrix?
The Krebbs Cycle involves this many different enzymes/
What is eight?
This is the final electron acceptor in the electron transport chain.
What is oxygen?
The average person makes about this much ATP In one single day.
Glycolysis happens here.
During the oxidation of pyruvate, NAD+ forms this.
What is NADH?
When ATP levels are high, fat is made using this important intermediate. When ATP levels are low, the same important intermediate is sent to the Krebbs Cycle to produce more energy. The important intermediate is called...
What is Acetyl CoA?
While electrons are being passed from one molecule to another in the electron transport chain, hydrogen ions are being pumped from the matrix to this part of the cell.
What is the intermembrane space?
ATP stands for this.
What is adenine nucleotide triphosphate?
This reaction happens in glycolysis.
What is oxidation?
During the oxidation of pyruvate, pyruvate loses one of its carbons and releases CO2. A two-carbon molecule remains, called this.
Carbon dioxide is released at these two intermediates in the Krebbs Cycle.
What are isocitric acid and ketoglutaric acid?
ATP synthase can be thought of as the machine that makes ATP, fueled by the hydrogen ion battery. As hydrogen ions go through ATP synthase, ATP gets created. This process of making ATP by diffusion of hydrogen ions across a membrane is called this.
What is Chemiosmosis?
Most of the energy in ATP is stored in the bond connecting the last phosphate group to the rest of the molecule. This bond is called...
What is a high energy phosphate bond?
The energy released in glycolysis, after the glucose is split in half, is captured in two of each of these two molecules.
What is ATP and NADH?
During the oxidation of pyruvate, the acetyl group combines with a coenzyme, creating this important intermediate.
What is acetyl CoA?
FADH2 is released at this intermediate in the Krebbs Cycle.
What is Succinic acid?
Electrons flow from one molecule to another in the electron transport chain. Electrons will move toward molecules with a higher potential of this.
What is oxidation?