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8. Respiration

Fermentation & Anaerobic Respiration

8. Respiration

Fermentation & Anaerobic Respiration

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What Happens to Aerobic Organisms if There's No Oxygen?

Jason Amores Sumpter

Lactic Acid Fermentation

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Alcohol Fermentation

Jason Amores Sumpter

Anaerobic Respiration

Jason Amores Sumpter

Practice this topic

Multiple Choice

Fermentation allows a cell to:

a) Recycle NADH to NAD⁺ for glycolysis.

b) Use NADH as a terminal electron acceptor.

c) Reduce NAD⁺ to NADH for glycolysis.

d) Synthesize ATP via ATP synthase.

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Multiple Choice

Which of the following describes a primary function of both lactic acid fermentation and alcohol fermentation?

a) Reduction of NAD⁺ to NADH.

b) Oxidation of NADH to NAD⁺.

c) Reduction of FAD to FADH₂.

d) Hydrolysis of ATP to ADP.

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Multiple Choice

In which of the steps of aerobic and anaerobic cellular respiration does substrate-level phosphorylation occur?

a) In glycolysis only.

b) In the Krebs cycle only.

c) In the electron transport chain only.

d) In both glycolysis and the Krebs cycle.

e) In both the Krebs cycle and the electron transport chain.

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Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about NAD⁺ is true?

a) NAD⁺ is reduced to NADH during glycolysis, pyruvate oxidation, and the Krebs cycle.

b) NAD⁺ has more chemical energy than NADH.

c) NAD⁺ donates high energy electrons to the electron transport chain.

d) In the absence of NAD⁺, glycolysis can still function.

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Multiple Choice

In brewing beer, maltose (a disaccharide of glucose) is __________.

Multiple Choice

Muscle tissues make lactate from pyruvate to do which of the following?

Multiple Choice

In glycolysis in the absence of oxygen, cells need a way to regenerate which compound?

Multiple Choice

Sports physiologists at an Olympic training center wanted to monitor athletes to determine at what point their muscles were functioning anaerobically. They could do this by checking for a buildup of which of the following compounds?

Multiple Choice

Fermentation is essentially glycolysis plus an extra step in which pyruvate is reduced to form lactate or alcohol and carbon dioxide. This last step __________.

Textbook Question

Which metabolic pathway is common to both fermentation and cellular respiration of a glucose molecule? a. the citric acid cycle b. the electron transport chain c. glycolysis d. reduction of pyruvate to lactate

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Textbook Question

Which of the following correctly describe the fermentation pathway? Select True or False for each statement. T/F It includes a reaction that oxidizes NADH to NAD+. T/F It synthesizes ATP by substrate-level phosphorylation. T/F It includes a reaction that reduces NAD+ to NADH. T/F It synthesizes electron acceptors, so that cellular respiration can continue.

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Textbook Question

Which of the following is a distinction between cellular respiration and fermentation? a. the transfer of from intermediate substrates to ADP b. the movement of H+ across a membrane down its concentration gradient c. the splitting of glucose into two molecules of pyruvate d. electrons moving through the electron transport chain

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Textbook Question

In which of the following is the first molecule becoming reduced to the second molecule? a. pyruvate → acetylCoA b. pyruvate → lactate c. glucose → pyruvate d. NADH + H+ →NAD+ + 2H

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Textbook Question

Anaerobic respiration . a. generates proteins for muscles to use; b. occurs in yeast cells only; c. does not use oxygen as the final electron acceptor; d. uses glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and the electron transport chain

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Textbook Question

Compare and contrast fermentation as it occurs in your muscle cells and in yeast cells.

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