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Requires oxygen and occurs in the mitochondria, generates many ATP

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Aerobic Respiration

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Occurs in the cytoplasm in the absence of oxygen - generated much fewer ATP

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Anaerobic Respiration

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A series of chemical reactions that break down glucose to produce ATP

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Cell respiration

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Chemical process by which molecules such as glucose are broken down anaerobically

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Fermentation

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site of cellular respiration

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Mitochondria

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Glucose broken down into pyruvate

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Glycolysis

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pyruvate broken into CO2 and water

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Krebs cycle

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Cellular energy is aka

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ATP

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The biochemical reactions that take place within the cell

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Metabolism

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What happens to Glucose during cell respiration

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It gets “burned” and tuned into ATP

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What is the “Energy currency” within a cell

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ATP

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When cells need energy to do work who breaks the high energy ATP bonds

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enzymes

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Why do enzymes break high energy ATP bonds

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to release energy stored in ATP

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What is the cell respiration equation (chemical and words)

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C6H12O6 (Glucose) + O2 (Oxygen) —> CO2 (Carbon dixiode) + H2O (Water) + ATP (ATP)

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Go to slide 6: Wheres the high energy bond?

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The red squiggly spaces

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What is a term used to describe Photosynthesis and cellular respiration

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Complementary

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What are the 3 cellular respiration steps

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  1. Glycolysis
  2. Citric acid (krebs cycle)
  3. Electron transport chain
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Where does glycolysis happen

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Cytoplasm

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19
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Where does Pyruvate Oxidation happen

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Mitochondrial matrix

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20
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Where does the krebs cycle happen

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Mitochondrial matrix

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Where does the Electron transport chain happen

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Inner Mitochondrial Membrane

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Glycolysis equation

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Glucose —> 2 pyruvate + 2 ATP + 2 NADH

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Cell respiration without oxygen

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Cell respiration that requires oxygen

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Where does Aerobic respiration happen
mitochondria
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Where does Anaerobic respiration happen
cytoplasm
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How much ATP does anaerobic respiration make
2
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how much ATP does Aerobic respiration make
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During cell respiration if O2 is available, pyruvate is taken into the mitochondria and what steps occur
2-3
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Anaerobic respiration- how much ATP is made after Glycolysis
None
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What causes the burning feeling in muscles during exercise
Latic acid
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What are the two types of anaerobic respiration
Alcoholic fermentation and Lactic acid fermentation
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In cells the energy available in food is used to make an energy rich compound called
ATP
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The first step in releasing energy of glucose in the cell is known as
glycolysis
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Go to slide 7: Whats A
Glycolysis
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Go to slide 7: Whats B
Krebs cycle
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Go to slide 7: Whats C
Electron transport chain
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What process use ATP as a energy carrier (respiration)
Both
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The process by which cells make ATP by breaking down organic compounds
cellular respiration
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three carbon product of glycolysis
pyruvic acid
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Fermentation and cellular respiration are both processes that break down glucose and
release energy from bonds
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the space inside the inner membrane of a mitochondria
mitochondrial matrix
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Process that produces large amounts of ATP
aerobic
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yeast use this process to convert pyruvic acid to ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide
alcoholic fermentation
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When is NAD+ regenerated for the use in gycolysis
latic acid fermentation
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What step of cellular respiration is anaerobic
glycolysis
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What are the reactants of the electron transport chain
O2, FADH2, NADH
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Gycolysis is to pyurvic acid as the krebs cycle is to
ATP
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The krebs cycle and electron transport chain are... (What type of respiration)
aerobic
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What must pyruvic acid be converted into before the Krebs cycle can proceed?
acetyl CoA
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What are the reactants of the Krebs Cycle?
pyruvate, acetyl CoA, NAD+, FAD
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What are the products of the Krebs Cycle?
H2O, NADH, 2 ATP, FADH2, CO2
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What are the products of the Electron Transport Chain?
ATP(up to 34), H2O, FAD, NAD+

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