BIOL 150B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Acetyl-Coa, Energy Harvesting, Cellular Respiration

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Cells require a continuous supply of energy to power the multitude of metabolic reactions that are essential just to stay alive. The second law of thermodynamics = every time a spontaneous reaction occurs, the amount of useful energy in a system decreases and heat is produced. Cells are relatively efficient at capturing chemical energy during glucose breakdown when oxygen is available storing 40% of the chemical energy from glucose in atp molecules and releasing the rest as heat. The energy utilized by living beings comes entirely from sunlight, captured during photosynthesis by plants and other photosynthetic organisms and stored in the chemical bonds of sugars and other organic molecules. Almost all organisms, use glycolysis and cellular respiration to break down these sugars and other organic molecules and capture some of the energy as atp. Glucose breakdown begins with glycolysis in the cell cytosol, liberating small quantities of atp.

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