BIOL1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cellular Respiration, Redox, Radiant Energy

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7 Sep 2018
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Producers capture light energy as chemical energy through photosynthesis. Consumers use the chemical energy and release it by respiration. $% + 6% 6% + 6% = 686 kcal/mol ( 2870 kj/mol) Glucose is a key molecule in the cycle of cellular energy conversions. Glucose breakdown to % releases a large amount of energy. Cells need to release the energy stored in glucose in small steps. If glucose was broken down in one go, the cell will overheat from the amount of energy released from glucose, bursting the cell open. At each step electrons are moved between the reactants and products to enable breaking of chemical bonds (redox reactions) Allows the controlled release of energy to transformed into atp. Cellular respiration is one big overall redox reaction. Electrons are transferred from one compound to another. To make this an efficient process cells use an electron shuttle compound - nad (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide)

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