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What is Cellular Respiration?
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The process that releases energy by breaking down glucose and other food molecules in the presense of oxygen.
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What is Glycolysis?
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The process in which one molecule of glucose is broken in half, producing two molecules of pyruvic acid, a 3-carbon compound.
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What is Alcoholic Fermentation?
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The process by which cells release energy in the absense of oxygen.
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The Krebs Cycle is the____?
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Second stage of cellular respiration, in which pyruvic acid is broken down into carbon dioxide in a series of energy (Extracting reactions).
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What is the Electron Transport Chain?
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A series of proteins in which the high-energy electrons from the Krebs Cycle are used to convert ADP into ATP.
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