Chapter 9-Cellular Respiration & Fermentation

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Life requires e-

Energy

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Metabolic pathways harvest ( ) from high energy molecules, such as ( )

Energy

Glucose

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( ) is the energy currency of the cell

Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)

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What are the types of potential energies important for cells?

-Chemical bonds

-Electrochemical gradients

-Energy in Electrons

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The bonds in ( ) are used to generate ATP

Glucose

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The bonds in glucose are used to generate ATP, this occurs through a series of ( ) reactions

Redox (reduction-oxidation)

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Much of the energy released in redox reactions is used to make ( )

ATP

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Cellular respiration is a ( ) that uses glucose to produce ( )

Metabolic process

ATP

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( ) energy is stored as ATP

Chemical

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Energy must be converted to a ( ) form

Usable

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Energy (from food) is stored in the ( ) bonds of ATP

Phosphate

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Many ( ) reactions take place to make ATP

Redox

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Energy is ( ) when ATP is converted to ADP

Released

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Phosphate groups on a ATP molecules are named what?

1-Alpha

2-Beta

3-Gamma

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( ) phosphate group has a high energy bond

Terminal

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When phosphate breaks off ATP, the reaction releases ( ) and ( )

Energy

Inorganic phosphate

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How much Delta G is released when Phosphate molecule breaks off ATP? And if its negative why?

-7.3 kcal/mol

Negative because energy is released into its surrounding and thus is losing free energy

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( ) is the process that recharges ( ) into ATP

Cellular respiration

ADP

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ADP can be ‘recharged’ into ATP again via ( ) reaction

Condensation

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What is phosphorylation?

The attachment of a phosphate group to a molecule or ion

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What is substrate-level phosphorylation?

Type of phosphorylation in which a phosphate group is transferred from a substrate to ADP

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What is oxidative phosphorylation?

Type of phosphorylation which uses the energy released from the electron transport chain to generate ATP

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When does substrate-level phosphorylation occur?

Glycolysis and citric acid cycle

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Substrate-level phosphorylation is the direct ( ) of a phosphate group from an ( ) to ADP

Organic substrate

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What is reaction intermediates?

A molecule produced in a multi step reaction that is consumed right after to ultimately get the final product.

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During substrate-level phosphorylation, phosphates come from reaction ( )

Intermediates

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Why does oxidative phosphorylation have “oxidative”?

Because the overall process involves oxygen

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When does oxidative phosphorylation occur?

During chemiosmosis

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What is chemiosmosis?

The process of moving ions to the other side of a membrane

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A majority of ATP is berated though which phosphorylation?

Oxidative phosphorylation

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During oxidative phosphorylation, inorganic phosphate is added to ADP to make ATP via ( )

Proton-motive force

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What is proton-motive force?

The force that promotes movement of protons across membranes downhill the electrochemical potential

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During ( ) reactions an electron loses energy as it moves from a less electronegative atom towards a more electronegative atom

Oxidation-Reduction (redox)

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( ) is loss of electrons

( ) is gain of electrons

Oxidation

Reduction

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In a ( ) reaction electrons gain energy

In a ( ) reaction electrons lose energy

Reduction

Oxidation

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Cellular respiration is a ( ) process

Redox

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Cellular respiration is a ( ) reaction, large molecules are broken down into smaller molecules

Catabolic

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Glucose is being broken down into ( ) molecules into order to produce ATP

Intermediate

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Do other metabolic pathways interact with cellular respiration?

Yes

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Cellular respiration is a set of ( ) reactions used to make ( )

Redox

ATP

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There are how any steps are in cellular respiration?

Four

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Carbon in glucose is ( ) during cellular respiration

Oxidized

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What is the first step of cellular respiration?

Glycolysis-breakdown of glucose into two molecules of pyruvate

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What is the second step of cellular respiration?

Pyruvate oxidation-conversion of pyruvate into acetyl CoA

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What is the third step of cellular respiration?

Citric acid cycle-NADH and FADH2 production

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What is the last step of cellular respiration?

Electron Transport & oxidative phosphorylation-Establish and use proton gradient to produce ATP

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Where does the first step of cellular respiration occur?

Cytosol of eukaryotes and prokaryotes

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Where does the second and third step of cellular respiration occur?

Matrix of mitochondria or cytosol of prokaryotes

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Where does the last level of cellular respiration occur?

Inner membrane of mitochondria or plasma membrane of prokaryotes

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NADH and FADH2 are ( ) carriers

Electron

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( ) carriers are energy carriers

Electron

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What is glycolysis?

The breakdown of glucose, releasing energy and pyruvic acid

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The first half of glycolysis is the energy ( ) phase; ( ) are invested

Input

2 ATP

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Glycolysis is 10 reactions that occur in the ( ) of the cell

Cytoplasm

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The last half of glycolysis is the energy ( ) phase; ( ) and ( ) are made

Output

2 NADH

4 ATP

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How many key points are there to cellular respiration?

Three

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Glycolysis starts by ( ) ATP in the energy investment phase; reaction(s) ( )

using two

1-5

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During the energy ( ) phase (reactions 6-10), NADH is made, and ATP is produced by ( )

payoff

substrate-level phosphorylation

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The net yield of glycolysis is what?

Two NADH

Two ATP

Two pyruvate

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Pyruvate continues into the next step in cellular respiration called ( )

pyruvate oxidation

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Pyruvate oxidizes into ( )

Acetyl CoA

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Pyruvate is oxidized in the ( ) in eukaryotes through a series of reactions

mitochondrial matrix

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One of pyruvate’s carbon is ( ) into CO2 by pyruvate dehydrogenase and ( ) is produced

oxidized

NADH

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The remaining two-carbon units in pyruvate is attached to ( ) producing ( )

Coenzyme A

Acetyl CoA

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Acetyl CoA produced by ( ) of pyruvate enters the ( ) cycle which occurs in the ( )

oxidation

citric acid

mitochondria matrix

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Why is the citric acid considered a cycle?

because oxaloacetate is regenerated at the end of process to bind more acetyl CoA

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During the citric acid cycle, ( ) binds to ( ) to form ( )

Acetyl CoA

oxaloacetate

citrate

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What is oxaloacetate?

Oxaloacetate is an intermediate of the citric acid cycle

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( ) steps of the citric acid cycle

8

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What are the first 4 steps of the citric acid cycle?

-Acetyl-CoA added to oxaloacetate to from citrate

-Isomerization via removal/addition of water

-redox forming NADH and CO2

-Redox forming NADH and CO2

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What are the last 4 steps of the citric acid cycle?

-Coenzyme A displacement and transfer of phosphate

-redox forming FADH2 (NO CO2)

-Isomerization

-Redox forming NADH (NO CO2) and reforming oxaloacetate

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Free energy ( ) as glucose is oxidized

changes

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By the end of the ( ) glucose has been completely oxidized

citric acid cycle

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By the end of the citric acid cycle ( ) and ( ) have been reduced

NAD+

FAD+

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Final step in cellular respiration is ( ) and ( )

The electron transport chain

Chemiosmosis

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By the end of the CAC most of glucose’s original energy is contain in the ( ) transferred to ( ) and ( )

electrons

NADH

FADH2

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At the end of the CAC, very ( ) ATP made

little

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Glucose is completely oxidized into ( )

CO2

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What is isomerization?

The transformation of a molecule into a different isomer

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What is an isomer?

molecules with the same molecular formulas, but different arrangements of atoms

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Electron transport chain and chemiosmosis occurs across the ( )

Mitochondrial inner membrane

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What is the electron transport chain?

A group of molecules imbedded in the inner membrane of the the mitochondria responsible for oxidizing NADH and FADH2

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The ETC is organized into four ( ), I-IV

Protein complexes

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( ) and ( ) transfer electrons between complexes in the ETC

Q

Cytochrome C

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At the end of the ETC, ( ) electrons are passed to ( ), along with protons and ( ) is formed

Low-energy

Oxygen

Water

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( ) reactions in ETC create proton gradient in the ( )

Redox

Inter membrane space

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In the ETC, ( ) and ( ) are oxidized as they give up electrons to the ETC

NADH

FADH2

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In the ETC, the energy from redox reactions is used to pump protons from the ( ) into the ( )

Inter membrane space

Mitochondrial matrix

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In the ETC, most of the chemical energy from glucose is now accounted for by a ( )

Proton electrochemical gradient

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Oxygen is an electron ( )

Acceptor

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In complex IV of the ETC, electrons that passed through the ETC are accepted from ( ) to form ( )

O2

H2O

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In the complex IV of the ETC, ( ) is oxidized H2O is ( )

O2

Reduced

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The proton-motive force couples electron transport to ( )

ATP synthesis

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The movement of protons (H+) ( ) their concentration gradient through ( ) fuels the addition of a phosphate group to ( ) making ATP

Down

ATP synthase

ADP

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The energy to produce ATP comes from a ( ) which was created via a series of ( ) reactions

Proton gradient

Redox

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What is oxidative phosphorylation?

The movement of protons though chemiosmosis through the use an ATP synthase, which joins ADP and phosphate. Thus creating ATP through a proton gradient

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Oxidative phosphorylation is analogous to a ( )

Hydroelectric Dam

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The majority of ATP is produced via ( )

Oxidative phosphorylation

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There are serveral ( ) that target the ETC

Poisons

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What’s one of the poisons that targets the ETC?

Cyanide