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An atom loses an electron and is gained by another
What happens in an oxidation-reduction reaction?
An atom loses and electron
What happens to a compound that is oxidized?
The atom gains an electron
What is gained by a compound that has been reduced?
Sugar is oxidized
Oxygen is reduced
In aerobic cellular respiration, what is oxidized? What is reduced?
Molecules that work with enzymes to complete a reaction; it is not a protein
What is the function of a coenzyme?
NAD+ and FAD
What are the coenzymes used in aerobic cellular respiration?
To make ATP
What is the goal of aerobic cellular respiration?
(1) Glycolysis: The sugar is split and 2 ATP molecules are made
(2) Pyruvate Oxidation: The split sugar is further broken down
(3) The Krebs Cycle: The sugar is further oxidized and 2 more ATP molecules are made
(4) The Electron Transport Chain: The energy that has been harvested from the sugar in the first two steps is used to make up to 32 more ATP molecules
What are the four steps of aerobic cellular respiration?
In the cytoplasm
Where does glycolysis occur in the cell?
In the mitochondria
Where do the following three steps occur in a eukaryotic cell?
Gluycose = 2 Pyruvates, 2 ATP, 2 NADH
What are the reactants and products of glucolysis?
2 Pyruvates = 2 Acetyl Molecules, 2 CO2 2 NADH
What are the reactants and products of pyruvate oxidation?
2 Acetyl Molecules = 4 CO2, 2 ATP, 6 NADH, 2 FADH2
What are the reactants and products of the Krebs cycle?
They diffuse out when we exhale them
What happens to the carbon dioxide produced in pyruvate oxidation and the Krebs cycle?
NADH and FADH2; O2
What are the reactants in the electron transport chain?
Up to 32 ATP and water
What are the products of the electron transport chain?
The final step and it becomes water
In what step is oxygen used? What does the oxygen become?
The 5th step in which ATP synthase produce ATP as the hydrogen ions are pumped through it
In which step is most of the ATP made?
When cells are deprived of oxygen
When does a cell use fermentation instead of aerobic cellular respiration?
2 ATP, 2 Ethanol, 2 CO2
What are the products of fermentation in yeast?
2 ATP and 2 Lactate Molecules
What is the product of fermentation in muscle cells?
They can continue to make 2 ATP per Glucose in the absence of Oxygen
What is the advantage to cells that can use the fermentation pathway?
32 ATP in aerobic cellular respiration, 2 ATP in fermentation
How many molecules of ATP are made from one glucose in aerobic cellular respiration and how many are made in fermentation?
Potential Energy is stored energy
Kinetic Energy is energy in motion
What is the difference between potential and kinetic energy?
Energy can change from one state to another but it can never be destroyed, nor can new energy be made; it applies to living things
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics? Does it apply to living things?
The disorder is a closed system is continuously increasing; disorder is more likely than order
What is the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
When a cat crawls up on your lap, you welcome the heat. Heat is coming not only from the cat but you
Can you think of an example that shows that the Second Law applies to living things?
A measure of the degree of a system
What is entropy?
Yes, it requires an input of energy to make it go forward; the products have more energy than the reactants
Does an endergonic reaction require an input of energy? Do the products have more or less energy than the reactants?
In photosynthesis, the products have more energy than the reactants
What is an example of an endergonic reaction in living things?
The products have less energy than the reactants
In an exergonic reaction, do the products have more or less energy than the reactants?
The breakdown of food is an example of an exergonic reaction; the food molecules have more energy than the waste that is produced
What is an example of an exergonic reaction in living things?
The amount of energy it takes to drive a reaction
What is activation energy?
An enzyme fits with a substrate in an enzyme-substrate complex, release a products, and then the enzymes are used again
What is the function of an enzyme?
An enzyme is a nucleic acid
Is an enzyme a protein, carb, lipid or nucleic acid?
An enzyme fits with a substrate in an enzyme-substrate complex, releases a product, and then the enzymes are used again
How do enzymes work?
Chemical transformation of reactants in cells
What are biochemical pathways?
The products are moved from one enzyme to another until the product is transformed into what it needs to
How are enzymes involved in biochemical pathways?
10 enzymes; one for each step
If a biochemical pathway has 10 steps, how many enzymes are involved in it?
"ase" ending
What suffix tells you that a word is the name of an en
The temperature increases and the bonds that determine the enzyme's shape are too weak to hold it in the proper position; it does not function properly because enzymes function best within an optimum temperature range
What is a denatured enzyme? Does it still function? Why?
Enzymes operate best at 98.6 degrees F
Different enzymes work best at different pH levels but they must match what their enzyme's function does
Do enzymes operate best at certain temperatures and pH levels or can they operate at any temperature and pH level?
it does not work properly or at all
What happens to an enzyme if you take it outside its "comfort" zone?
A sugar, a nitrogen base, and three phosphate groups
What are the parts of ATP?
When the third phosphate group is broken off of ATP, energy is released and the molecule becomes ADP; that is the energy we use to move, think, and process chemicals
How does ATP work?
ATP
Which has more energy, ADP or ATP?
Chloroplasts
Where does photosynthesis happen (in which cell part)?
Thylakoids
Light beam encounters this series of internal membranes within the chloroplast organized into flattened sacs
Grana
Numerous thylakoids are stacked on top of one another in columns
Stroma
The thylakoid membrane system is submerged within a semi-liquid substance, which fills the interior of the cytoplasm
The chlorophyll molecule
(1) Light strikes the chlorophyll molecule and causes an electron in it to become excited;
(2) The excited electron bounces from one chlorophyll to the next;
(3) The molecule finally finds the reaction center chlorophyll;
(4) From there, the electron moves outside the photosystem, onto an electron accepting molecule sitting next to it on the thylakoid membrane
What pigment molecule is embedded in the thylakoid membrane? What is its function?
Carbon dioxide + water + light energy
What are the reactants in photosynthesis?
Glucose + water + oxygen
What are the products in photosynthesis?
The 6-carbon compound is split into a 3-carbon compound
What happens to the carbon dioxide that enters the plant?
It gets split in half and the plant produces carbon dioxide
What happens to the water that enters the plant?
Blue and red (light) - green is absorbed in the chlorophyll
What are the wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum (the energy from the sun) that are used in photosynthesis?
A photosystem is a group of chlorophyll molecules clustered together; light is captured and concentrated in the thykaloid membranes
What is the function of a photosystem?
ATP and NADPH go on to be used in the light independ reactions; Oxygen diffuses out of the plant
The important products of the light dependent products of the light dependent products are oxygen, ATP and the electron carrier, NADPH. Which of these go on to be used in the light independent reactions (also called the Calvin Cycle)? Which is released into the air?
Carbon Dioxide
What gas is "fixed" by the plant during the Calvin Cycle?
RuBP
What is the product of the Calvin Cycle?
It produces the carbohydrate, glucose. Energy from ATP and NADPH are added to the fixed carbon; the product is a 3-carbon compound called G3P; it takes two G3P molecules to make a glucose
How does the plant use G3P?
Plants, some Protista, and bacteria
What kinds of organisms can carry out photosynthesis?