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Overview of Aerobic Cellular Respiration: Fill in the following table.

Process Reaction(s): Cellular Location Is Number and Net ATP

What is the initial substrate(s) and what is the final in Eukaryotes O2 Types of Production
end product(s)? Required? Electron Per Glucose
Carriers
Produce Per
Glucose

Example: Cytoplasm 2 types 2

Glycolysis Glucose2 pyruvate (or pyruvic acid) No NADH and
𝐹𝐴𝐷𝐻2

Transition Reaction

Glucosecarbon dioxide On the membrane No 2

Krebs Cycle of the
mitochondria

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Electron Transport System inside the
(ETS) mitochondria

Overall Net Yield of ATP from one glucose

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Overview of Lactic Acid Fermentation

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Glycolysis

Lactic Acid
Fermentation

Overall Net Yield of ATP from one glucose

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Answer the following questions.

1. What is decarboxylation? In which major processes does it occur?

It occurs after glycolysis when a pyruvic acid can oxidize further. Coenzyme A decomposes a carbon dioxide molecule forming acetaldehyde.

2. What is the ultimate fate of the pyruvic acid in an organism which carries out aerobic cellular respiration?
The pyruvic acid is turned into acetyl coenzyme A.

3. Which part of cellular respiration produces the most ATP? How does it work?
The Electron Transport Chain produces 32 ATP. This takes place in the mitochondria and electron carriers alternate between reduced and oxidized states
as they return and accept electrons. These electron are passed to 𝑂2 forming 𝐻2 𝑂

4. Which part of cellular respiration produces the most NADH? How many (per glucose)?
The citric acid cycle produces 3 NADH

5. What is the difference between substrate level phosphorylation and oxidative phosphorylation?

6. What is the major enzyme needed to produce ATP by oxidative phosphorylation?

7. What is the final electron acceptor in aerobic cellular respiration?

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8. What is the final electron acceptor in lactic acid fermentation?

9. Most of the large, fast-flowing rivers in the Northwest U.S. are blocked by man-made dams. Water is directed though pipes in the dam that lead to
hydroelectric generators. The generators in these dams create electricity as water rushes past them. This is most similar to which metabolic process?

10. Explain two ways that fermentation differs from aerobic cellular respiration.

11. What is the maximum number of ATP molecules produced in the electron transport chain from each NADH?

12. Why is less ATP produced from FADH2 than from NADH?