Biology 2601A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Beta Oxidation, Oxidative Phosphorylation, Cellular Respiration
3 Dec 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Generation of sugars that are exported from chloroplast and used as energy. Consumption of plant by herbivores provides energy for them. Sugars can be stored in the form of starch (rarely store in form of fat) Sugars can undergo glycolysis breaking down of sugar into organic acids. Organic acids enter cac and become fully oxidised to go through oxidative phosphorylation. Sugars can be stored in glycogen glucose polymer: relatively short term storage. Excess energy regardless of where it comes from is stored in fat. Fat can be recovered and used in the formation of energy through beta oxidation. Beta ox doesn"t take place in plants only use a version of it during germination. Pyruvate goes into mito chondria converted into acetyl coa and then. Hexoses are converted to triose - p. Triose - p is converted to pyruvate. 1 molecule of sucrose yields 4 nadh, 4 atp and 4 pyruvate. Major fate is to go into mito for oxidative phosphorylation.
