Prescott's Microbiology
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ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 11.2, Problem 2RIA
Why is it to a cell’s advantage to catabolize diverse organic energy sources by funnelling them into a few common pathways?
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What does the following figure represent?
The last steps of anaerobic cellular respiration.
b)
Oxidative phosphorylation.
c)
The electron transport chain (ETC) only.
d)
Chemiosmosis only.
e)
The light reactions of photosynthesis.
Why are electron carriers (NAD+/NADH and FAD/FADH2) so important in the process of cellular respiration?
A)NADH and FADH2 are major components of the ETC, so without them, there would be no ETC in the cell.
B)They deliver electrons to the ETC, which in turn sets up chemiosmosis, where most of the ATP is generated.
C)They separate the electrons from the protons so that the protons can be moved out of the mitochondrion.
D)The electrons that they carry are able to directly phosphorylate ADP in order to generate the bulk of ATP in the cell.
E) They transport protons across the mitochondrial membrane.
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A proton gradient is created during the electron transport chain using the energy released from the oxidation of NADH and FADH2. The protons then cross the membrane through ATP synthase down their electrochemical gradient, and ATP is produced. This is an example of
A) energy coupling
B) cotransport
C) allosteric regulation.
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