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Part 2: The Living Cell
How Cells Acquire Energy
Review
Photosynthesis
transforms
energy into the chemical
energy
of
, and can take place in
cyanobacteria,
algae,
and
.
In
plants,
photosynthesis takes place in the
in two steps: the light-
reactions
and the light-
reactions
(Calvin cycle).
Groups of
pigments
called
complexes are embedded in
membranes and organized into
with embedded
proteins.
Light energy captured in the
photosystems
is used to excite
that are passed to two electron transport
.
In the first electron transport
system,
a
pump pumps hydrogen ions (protons) across the membrane to create a concentration gradient.
The protons diffuse back by
through specialized channel proteins called ATP
to
generate
ATP.
In the second electron transport system, NADP
+
is reduced to
produce
, which will carry the high-energy electron to the
cycle.
The
Calvin
cycle occurs in the
of chloroplasts, and use products of the light-dependent reactions, ATP and
, to build
carbohydrates
from CO
2
.
Cellular
respiration
is the process of harvesting
from
molecules and storing the energy in
ATP.
Cellular
respiration
is composed of two stages:
occurs in the
and
occurs in
.
In
glycolysis
is broken down into two three-carbon
molecules, yielding a net of
molecules of ATP per
glucose.
The pyruvates are passed into the
where they are
converted
into
, which
enters
the
cycle (citric acid cycle), which
In the
Krebs
cycle, each pyruvate molecule yields
molecule of ATP, and several electron carrier molecules of
and
.
The energy stored in NADH and
is harvested by the electron
transport
to make
by
chemiosmosis
through ATP
channels.
The electron transport chain requires
, therefore the entire pathway is called
metabolism, or
respiration.
Other macromolecules such as
and
can also enter cellular respiration via different
pathways.
In
conditions, glycolysis is
followed
by
, which regenerates the electron receptor
NAD+
, and allows glyocolysis to continue generating
.
Respiration:
review
and
exercise.
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