PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dihydroxyacetone Phosphate, Electronegativity, Carboxylic Acid
24 Jan 2018
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It transforms the light energy into chemical potential energy which is available for organisms to use. It captures light energy and uses it to convert co2 and h2o into organic molecules, such as sugar, which have a lot of free energy. The products: sugars and o2 are used in energy releasing reactions in aerobic cells. The potential energy is extracted through oxidation which synthesizes. Atp and is stored in it as chemical energy: write the overall equation for aerobic cellular respiration. Complex organisms cannot rely on anaerobic respiration as we are only capable of using oxygen as a final electron acceptor in the electron transport chain; no other oxidizing agent would work and we would die. Fructose is split into g3p and dhap: oxidation-reduction (redox), 2 e- & 2 p+ are removed from g3p. Some energy released in rxn is trapped by addition of an inorganic phosphate group (not derived from atp).
