BIOL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Short Circuit

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BIOL 1000-HOW CELLS HARVEST CHEMICAL ENERGY
1.1 INTRODUCTION:
Oxygen is a reactant in the process of cellular respiration, the process that breaks down sugar
and other food molecules and generates ATP and the energy currency in cells, and heat.
‘Brown Fat’ has a short circuit in its cellular respiration which generates only heat, not ATP.
It is important for heat production in small mammals, including mammals.
1.2 PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND CELLULAR RESPIRATION PROVIDE ENERGY FOR
LIFE:
Life requires energy in all forms but it ultimately comes from the sun.
In the process of photosynthesis, some of the energy in the sunlight is captured by chloroplas-
ts, atoms of carbon dioxide and water are rearranged and then sugar and oxygen are produced.
In cellular respiration, sugar is broken down to carbon dioxide and water and then the cell
captures some of the released energy to make ATP.
1.3 BREATHING SUPPLIES OXYGEN FOR USE IN CELLULAR RESPIARTION AND
REMOVES CARBON DIOXIDE:
Respiration in the breathing sense refers to an exchange of gases.
Cellular respiration is the aerobic harvesting of energy from food molecules by cells.
Cellular respiration, is an exergonic (energy-releasing) process that
transfers energy from glucose to form ATP.
It can produce up to 32 ATP molecules for each glucose molecule.
It uses about 34% of the energy originally stored in glucose with the rest of the energy lost as
heat.
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1.4 CELLS CAPTURE ENERGY FROM ELECTRONS ‘FALLING’ FROM ORGANIC FU-
ELS TO OXYGEN:
Electrons removed from fuel molecules(oxidation) and are transferred to NA
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(reduction).
NADH passes electrons to an electron transport chain. Energy is released as electrons ‘fall’
from carrier to carrier and finally to oxygen.
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