POLS 1402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Maltose, Succinic Acid, Dietary Supplement
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Aerobic respiration: if additional succinate is added to a mitochondrial suspension solution, then the. Dcpip will accept more electrons, and have a higher percent transmittance at 600nm, leading to a colorless solution and a very high rate of aerobic respiration. Within most cellular activity, glucose is the most important energy source. Though, to make the amount of atp needed, the energy converted must go through certain steps. These include glycolysis, citric acid cycle (krebs cycle), and the electron transport system. The first step, glycolysis, happens in the cytoplasm, as the second and third steps, citric acid cycle and electron transport, both happen in the mitochondria. This whole process is referred to as cellular respiration, and only occurs when oxygen is present. The succinate-fumarate conversion is monitored by the usage of a suspension of mitochondria. This causes the production of free electrons through the reaction of fad to reduce to fadh2.
