Monday, September 30, 2013

Warm Up 1 - Cellular Respiration - 9/30/13

1. What is oxidative decarboxylation?
Oxidative decarboxylation is the removal of a hydrogen atom (oxidation) and the removal of carbon dioxide (decarboxylation).

2. What is substrate-level phosphorylation?
Substrate-level phosphorylation is a way of producing ATP by adding a phosphate to ADP.

3. What are the products of Krebs? Glycolysis?
The Krebs cycle produces 2 ATP, 6 NADH, 2 FADH2, Oxaloacetate and 4 CO2 per molecule of glucose.  These products are the result of two turns of the Krebs cycle.  Glycolysis produces 4 ATP (for a net gain of 2 since 2 ATP are used up), 2 NADH molecules, and 2 pyruvate (3C) molecules.