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BIO
Cellular Respiration
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cellular respiration equation | C6H12O6 + 6O2 ---> 6CO2 + 6H2O + ATP |
| mitochondria | location where the majority of aerobic respiration occurs in eukaryotes. Contains both an inner and outer membrane which are critical to the organelle's function |
| What is cellular respiration? | The process of your cells converting nutrients from food (glucose) and oxygen into useable energy for the cell (ATP) |
| cellular respiration inputs | glucose and oxygen |
| cellular respiration outputs | CO2, water, ATP |
| NADH and FADH2 | electron carriers |
| Phosphorylation | a process that adds a phosphate group to ADP, which makes ATP! |
| Reduction | when a molecule gains an electron |
| oxidation | when a molecule loses an electron |
| 3 stages of cellular respiration | glycolysis, krebs cycle, electron transport chain |
| electron transport chain | Electrons from NADH and FADH2 (created during glycolysis and Krebs Cycle) are transferred into ATP |
| Glycolysis | Glucose gets broken down into pyruvate (a 3 carbon molecule) |
| phosphorylation | adding a phosphate group onto a molecule |
| ADP | a molecule called adenosine diphosphate (adenosine bonded to two phosphate groups) |
| ATP synthase | spins when H+ ions go from high to low concentration; spinning action provides the energy to make ATP molecules from ADP and P (free phosphates) |