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When do redox reactions release energy?
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When electrons move closer to electronegative atoms.
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What does respiration generally involve?
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Glycolysis
Krebs cycle
Electron transport
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What does the Krebs cycle complete?
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The energy-yielding oxidation of organic molecules.
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What does the inner mitochondrial membrane do?
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Couples electron transport to ATP synthesis.
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What generates many ATP molecules for each sugar molecule it oxidizes?
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Cellular respiration
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What helps a cell systematically degrade complex organic molecules that are rich in potential energy to simpler waste products with less energy
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Enzymes
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Metabolic pathways that release stored energy by breaking down complex molecules are called..?
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Catabolic Pathways
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Which catabolic process is a partial degradation of sugars that occurs without the help of oxygen?
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Fermentation
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Which catabolic pathway is most prevalent and efficient, and in which oxygen is consumed as a reactant along with the organic fuel?
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Cellular Respiration
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In eukaryotic cells, what houses most of the equipment for cellular repiration?
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Mitochondria
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What is the word equation for the overall process of Cellular Respiration?
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Organic Compounds + Oxygen --> Carbon dioxide +Water+Energy
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Into what does the C6H12O6 degrade ?
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6CO2 6H20 and Energy (ATP+Heat)
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What chemical drive shaft (the pivotal molecule in cellular energetics) links catabolism to work?
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ATP
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What does ATP stand for?
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Adnosine Triphosphate
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When a cell taps triphosphate tail of ATP by using enzymes to transfer phosphate groups from ATP to other compounds...?
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Phosphorylation- primes a molecule to undergo some kind of change that performs work, and the molecule loses its phosphate group in the process.
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