BIOL3149 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Adenosine Triphosphate, Cellular Respiration, Photoheterotroph
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High energy to low energy, creating a gradient. Energy can be used to make other things. Heterotrophs use organic compounds like glucose to make energy. Photoheterotroph uses light energy to fix organic compounds. C6h12o6 + o2 6 co2 + 6h2o + energy. We have protons going to lower energy sources. When we 1 of the 3 phosphate groups. Atp we get energy, this energy is heat and 38 atp (this is in an ideal world, most of the time you get 29-30) 6c of glucose which gets broken down into pyruvate which is a 3 carbon. During this reduction of glucose to pyruvate we get 2 atp and 2 nadh. Glycolysis does not depend on o2, anaerobic process. We can go through the krebs cycle or we can ferment --- when we have no o2 fermentation is the only option (pyruvate 3c -> fermentations)
