Terminal Respiration

Question 1

What is the function of the the Citric Acid cycle?

Answer 1

Acts as the common metabolic process for all fuel molecules

Question 2

Where does the citric acid cycle occur?

Answer 2

Mitochondrial matrix

Question 3

How is ATP formed form the Citric acid cycle?

Answer 3

Electrons are passed onto NADH and FADH2

Question 4

What is the final stage of respiration?

Answer 4

The electron transport chain

Question 5

What does ubiquinone become when electrons are passed to it?

Answer 5

Ubiquinol

Question 6

What does NADH-Q oxidoreductase reduce?

Answer 6

NADH

Question 7

What happens in stage 3 of the electron transport chain?

Answer 7

Electrons are passed from ubiquinol to cytochrome c

Question 8

ADP uses released energy to make ATP using what mechanism?

Answer 8

Binding change mechanism

Question 9

Where are protons produced in the electron transport chain pumped to?

Answer 9

The intermembraneous space of the mitochondria

Question 10

When can ATP synthesis become uncoupled from the ETC?

Answer 10

When the inner mitochondrial membrane becomes permeable to protons

Question 11

What is the name given to when protons move into the intermembraneous space?

Answer 11

Chemiosmosis

Question 12

What is the name of complex 1 of the electron transport chain?

Answer 12

NADH-Q oxidoreductase

Question 13

What is the name of complex 3 of the electron transport chain?

Answer 13

Q-cytochrome c oxidoreductase

Question 14

What is the name of complex 2 of the electron transport chain?

Answer 14

Succinate-Q reductase

Question 15

What is the name of complex 4 of the electron transport chain?

Answer 15

Cytochrome c oxidase

Question 16

What provides the energy to power the ATP synthase molecule?

Answer 16

The protein gradient created by the production of the water molecule