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Cellular respiration
1. All cells in your body do cellular respiration, and all eukaryotic organisms do it basically in the same way.
Where in the cell does cellular respiration take place?
2. What is the main goal of cellular respiration?
3. Organisms that can and cannot make their own food receive specific names, which ones?
4. Mention the three stages of aerobic cellular respiration.
5. In what stage is used the O2 that by common knowledge we know we need in order to stay alive? What is
the O2 used for? In other words, what is its function?
6. What are the energy carriers that transport the H atoms and electron from the original glucose to the inside
of the mitochondria? In what stages are these produced?
7. In cellular respiration, which stage needs ATP to start the sequence of reactions?
8. Which stages produce ATP, which one produces the most ATP?
9. In what stage is generated the CO2 we normally exhale?
10. Explain the electron transport chain stage (ETC).
11. What allows the proton pump or ATPase or ATP synthase enzyme to make the ATP?
12. What would happen if you stop breathing oxygen in? In other words, what would be the effect form the
point of view of cellular respiration?
13. What type of cellular respiration is the process of “fermentation”? To what stage of the aerobic cellular
respiration is this process equivalent?
14. There are two types of fermentation. The difference with the aerobic Glycolysis is that the H is accepted by
a different molecule instead of the piruvic acid.
a) Give the name of the two types of fermentation
b) Name organisms that use each type of fermentation
c) Humans take advantage of both types of fermentations. What are the industrial uses humans
give to both types of fermentations?
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