BIOL 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide, Cellular Respiration, Mitochondrial Matrix

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Cells use energy in food to make atp: All plants and animals as well as many microbes, use food (such as glucose) and oxygen gas to produce atp, an energy carries to power cell activities. Proteins, lipids, and carbs can be converted to atp. The process of using glucose and oxygen to produce atp is called aerobic respiration. This is cellular respiration not to be confused with physiological respiration when you breathe through your lungs. Inhaled oxygen is consumed in cellular respiration. Cellular respiration releases energy from glucose in several steps. During glycolysis (breakdown of sugar), glucose (6 carbons) is split into, 3-carbon molecules of pyruvate. The pyruvate molecules then enter a mitochondrion where they are assembled into co2 molecules during the krebs cyclye. Glycolysis and the krebs cycle transfer some of the potential energy in glucose to atp. Meanwhile, electrons are transferred to nadh (electron carrier) and fadh2. Nadh- nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (reduced form) donates electrons.

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