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29 Cards in this Set
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A partial degradation of sugars that occurs without the help of oxygen. Alcohol and Lactic are two examples.
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Fermentation
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Oxygen is consumed as a reactant along with the organic fuel. A catabolic pathway for the production of ATP.
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Cellular Respiration
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Oxidation-Reduction reactions
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Redox Reactions
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The loss of electrons from one substance
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Oxidation
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The addition of electrons to another substance.
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Reduction
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The electron donor.
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Reducing Agent
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The electron acceptor.
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Oxidizing Agent.
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(Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) a conenzyme present in all cells that helps enzymes transfer electrons during the redox reactions of metabolism.
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NAD+
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Breaks the fall of electrons to oxygen into several energy-releasing steps instead of one explosive reaction.
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Electron Transport Chain
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The degradation of glucose by breaking glucose into two molecules of a compound called pyruvate.
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Glycolosis
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Decomposes a derivative of pyruvate to carbon dioxide.
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Krebs cycle
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The production of ATP using energy derived from the redox reactions of an electron transport chain.
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Oxidative Phosphorylation
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The formation of ATP by directly transferring a phosphate group to ADP from an intermediate substrate in catabolism.
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Substrate Phosphorylation
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The entry compound for the Krebs cycle in cellular respiration.
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Acetyl coA
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A component of electron transport chains in mitochondria and chloroplast.
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Cytochrome
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Decomposes a derivative of pyruvate to carbon dioxide.
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Krebs cycle
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The production of ATP using energy derived from the redox reactions of an electron transport chain.
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Oxidative Phosphorylation
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The formation of ATP by directly transferring a phosphate group to ADP from an intermediate substrate in catabolism.
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Substrate Phosphorylation
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The entry compound for the Krebs cycle in cellular respiration.
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Acetyl coA
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A component of electron transport chains in mitochondria and chloroplast.
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Cytochrome
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The enzyme that actually makes ATP from ADP and inorganic phosphate.
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ATP Synthesis
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The potential energy stored in the form of an electrochemical gradient, generated by the pumping of hydrogen ions across biological membranes during chemiosmosis.
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Proton-Motive Force
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Coupling mechanism between the chemical reaction that makes ATP and transport across a membrane.
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Chemiosmosis
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Oxygen is present.
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Aerobic
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Oxygen is not present.
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Anaerobic
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The conversion of pyruvate to carbon dioxide and ethyl alcohol.
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Alcohol Fermentation
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The conversion of pyruvate to lactate with no release of carbon dioxide.
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Lactic Acid Fermentation
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Organisms that are able to survive with or without oxygen.
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Facultative Anaerobes
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A metabolic sequence that breaks fatty acids down to two carbon fragments which enter the Krebs cycle as acetyl coA.
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Beta Oxidation
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