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Cellular Respiration: BioCoach Activity

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Cellular Respiration: Introduction

1. What is cellular respiration?

2. What are three macromolecules that can be used as fuels in cellular respiration?

Concept 1: Overview of Cellular Respiration

3. Name the three metabolic processes of cellular respiration AND where each occurs in the cell.

4. In the absence of oxygen, how do the metabolic processes change?

Concept 2: Overview of Glycolysis

5. In glycolysis, what happens to glucose?

6. After glucose is changed, describe the net gain of the two molecules.

Concept 3: Krebs Cycle

7. What forms of energy are generated in the Krebs Cycle?

8. What molecule, which is also the end product of glycolysis, is transported into the mitochondria to release and capture chemical energy?

9. What organelle does the the Krebs Cycle take place?

Concept 4: Electron Transport Chain

10. What does the electron transport chain allow?

11. The energy released is captured in the form of what?

Concept 5: Fermentation

12. If oxygen is not present, pyruvate is metabolized in a process called what?

13. Fermentation complements glycolysis by making it possible for what form of energy to be produced in the absence of oxygen?

Concept 6: Glucose and Energy

14. Describe the amount of ATP that is produced in aerobic respiration in comparison to that in respiration without oxygen (anaerobic) ?

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