BIOL 200 Chapter 9: CHAPTER 9_ Cellular Respiration and Fermentation

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Atp, which has high potential energy and allows cells to overcome life"s energy barriers. This chapter investigates how cells make atp, starting with an introduction to the metabolic pathways that harvest energy from high-energy molecules like glucose the most common source of chemical energy used by organisms. Because it has high potential energy, atp is unstable and is not stored. Like many other cellular processes, the production and use of atp is fast. Most cells are making atp all the time. Most of the glucose that is used to make atp is produced by plants and other photosynthetic species. When glucose undergoes the uncontrolled oxidation reaction called burning, some of the potential energy stored in its chemical bonds is converted to kinetic energy in the form of heat: A total of about 685 kilocalories of heat is released when one mole of glucose is oxidized.

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