Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells Worksheet

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Associate Program Material Cell Energy Worksheet Answer the following questions: Cellular respiration: • What is cellular respiration and what are its three stages? Cellular respiration is the primary method in which chemical energy is harvested and taken from food, and converted into ATP energy. There are three stages that are involved with Cellular Respiration. The three stages are glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and the electron transport stage. • What is the role of glycolysis? Include the reactants and the products. Where does it occur? The role of glycolysis is to ultimately harvest more energy from high-energy electrons. The term glycolysis refers to the splitting of sugar, which is exactly what happens during this process. There is a six-carbon glucose molecule that breaks in half, which forms two separate three-carbon molecules. The three-carbon molecules donate high electrons to NAD+, which is the electron carrier, in turn forming the NADH. This process occurs in the fluid part of the cytoplasm in the plant. • What is the role of the citric acid cycle? Include the reactants and the products. Where does it occur? The role of the citric acid cycle is to finish removing the energy of the sugar by breaking the acetic acid molecules all of the way down to CO2. Of course, before this can happen the pyruvic acid has to be converted into a form the citric acid cycle can actually use. The first step in regards to the citric acid cycle is that the pyruvic acid loses a carbon as CO2. In turn, the fuel molecules that are left are called acetic acid; and the oxidation of the fuel creates NADH. Lastly, “the acetic acid is attached to a molecule called coenzyme A (CoA) to form acetyl CoA. The CoA escorts the acetic acid into the first reaction of the citric acid cycle,” (Simon, E. J., Reece, J.

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