Cells perform exergonic reactions like aerobic respiration to obtain energy in the form of ATP, which powers endergonic processes like biosynthesis. During aerobic respiration, glucose and other molecules like fats are broken down through glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and the electron transport chain to generate large amounts of ATP via chemiosmosis. Aerobic respiration occurs in the mitochondria and produces approximately 36 ATP per glucose molecule.

1. Energy and Metabolism

2. Energy and Metabolism

3. Energy and Cellular Work
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4. Energy and Metabolism
Endergonic and Exergonic Reactions
• When do our cells
perform exergonic
reactions?
• When do our cell
perform endergonic
reactions?

5. Our cells perform exergonic
reactions when …
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6. Our cells perform endergonic
reactions when …
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7. Energy and Metabolism
Biosynthetic and Degradative Pathways
• Biosynthetic Pathway:
Anabolism
• Degradative Pathway:
Catabolism

8. Energy and Metabolism
All Living Organisms Require Energy
Sources

9. The Flow of Energy or How
Organisms Relate
Consumers or Heterotrophs
Producers or Autotrophs (Photoautotrophs)
Decomposers

10. The Flow of Energy or How
Organisms Relate
• Photoautotrophs
synthesize high energy
organic molecules during
photosynthesis
• Both photoautotrophs and
heterotrophs use such
organic molecules to
obtain energy (ATP)
through cellular
respiration for fueling
cellular work

11. Participants in Metabolic Pathways
• Substrate:
• Intermediate Product(s):
• End Product(s):
• Enzymes:
• Energy Carriers:

12. Photosynthetic bacteria are autotrophs because
they have the ability to produce their own high
energy organic compounds (food). Do you agree?
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13. Adenosine 5’-triphosphate (ATP)
• What part of the molecule is the most
electronegative?

14. What part of the molecule is the
most electronegative?
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15. Hydrolysis of ATP into ADP
Energy and inorganic phosphate are released.
What for?

16. The ATP/ADP Cycle
From Degradative Pathways
For Synthetic Pathways
Phosphorylation

17. Energy Releasing Pathways
Fermentation
Fermentation (alcoholic and lactic): 2 ATP’s
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18. Energy Releasing Pathways
Fermentation
Yeast

19. Energy Releasing Pathways
Anaerobic Respiration
• Anaerobic Respiration: 2 ATP’s
produced.
• Commonly known diseases caused by
anaerobic bacteria include gas
gangrene, tetanus, and botulism.
Nearly all dental infections are caused
by anaerobic bacteria.
• Anaerobic bacteria can cause an
infection when a normal barrier (such
as skin, gums, or intestinal wall) is
damaged due to surgery, injury, or
disease. Body sites that have tissue
destruction (necrosis) or a poor blood
supply are low in oxygen and favor the
growth of anaerobic bacteria.
• Anaerobic organisms perform
anaerobic respiration

20. Energy Releasing Pathways
Aerobic Respiration
• Aerobic Respiration:
approximately 36 ATP
molecules produced
• Aerobic organisms
perform aerobic
respiration

21. Which one of the following is the most
effective pathway for producing ATP?
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1. fermentation
2. anaerobic respiration
3. aerobic respiration
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22. Depending on their oxygen needs,
organisms are
• Strictly Aerobic: require oxygen
• Facultative Aerobic
• Strictly Anaerobic: do not tolerate oxygen
• Facultative Anaerobic

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3. strictly aerobic
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24. Steps of Aerobic Respiration

25. Where does aerobic respiration
occur?

26. Steps of Aerobic Respiration:
Glycolysis
• All organisms (anaerobic and
anaerobic) break down
glucose trough the process of
glycolysis, which occurs in the
cell’s cytoplasm
• Only aerobic organism process
the products of glycolysis to
obtain further amounts of ATP
• Glucose is actively transported
into the cell and
phosphorylated (step 1),
process that turns on
glycolysis

27. Steps of Aerobic Respiration:
Glycolysis
• 2 molecules of
pyruvate are
produced per
molecule of glucose
• A net of 2 ATP per
molecule of glucose
are produced in
glycolysis

28. Steps of Aerobic Respiration:
Krebs Cycle
• The Krebs cycle
accomplishes two
important functions:
the production of
multiple intermediate
products, and of
electron donors
(NADH, FADH2)

29. Steps of Aerobic Respiration:
Krebs Cycle
• The Krebs Cycle occurs in the
mitochondrial matrix
• It is initiated when one
molecule of pyruvate is
transported into the
mitochondrion by an oxygen
dependent transport protein
• Upon entering the
mitochondrion, pyruvate is
turned into acetyl CoA, which
initiates the cycle
• CO2 is produced and will
eventually leave the
mitochondrial matrix and
collect in blood vessels

30. Where is the pyruvate coming
from?
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1. Lactic fermentation
2. Alcoholic fermentation
3. Aerobic respiration
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31. Steps of Aerobic Respiration:
Krebs Cycle
• Per molecule of
pyruvate, 1 ATP, 1
FADH2, 3 CO2, and 4
NADH are produced
• NADH and FADH2 will
initiate the last step of
aerobic respiration,
the electron transport
phosphorylation
system (ETPS).

32. Steps of Aerobic Respiration:
ETPS
• ETPS consists of a series of
proteins located in the inner
mitochondrial membrane
• NADH and FADH2 link
glycolysis and the Krebs cycle
to the machinery that produces
large amounts of ATP
• NADH and FADH2 turn on the
ETPS. Electrons cascade
down the chain from one
protein to the next until they
finally reach the molecule of
oxygen, the final acceptor
• As electrons cascade down,
protons are released

33. Steps of Aerobic Respiration:
ETPS
• As proteins release H+ in
the intermembrane
space, they produce a
gradient of H+, which
activates ATP synthase,
the enzyme that produces
about 32-34 ATP
molecules.
Chemiosmosis refers to
the activation of ATP
synthase by a H+
gradient.

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35. Steps of Aerobic Respiration:
ETPS

36. Aerobic Respiration:
What does it produce?

37. Plants need to burn sugars and fats
to obtain ATP. Do you agree?
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38. Other molecules other than sugars
undergo aerobic respiration
• Proteins and fats are
used in aerobic
respiration for the
production of ATP.

39. Other molecules other than sugars undergo
aerobic respiration