20. How many equivalents of ATP are produced from a mole of glucose
in the entire respiratory process, from glycolysis through the reaction
with 02?
21. What purpose does the respiratory chain play in energy extraction?
Why is it called a "chain"? What are flavoproteins, quinones,
and cytochromes, and what part do they play in the respiratory chain?
Where, and how often, is ATP synthesized as electrons flow down
the chain? Where do the electrons eventually go? What happens to
the NAD+ and FAD that are produced by the chain?
22. Where are the enzymes of the citric acid cycle and the components
of the respiratory chain located in a eucaryotic cell?
23. What is gluconeogenesis? How is it related to glycolysis? Why
is it useful to have the biochemical capabilities conferred by gluconeogenesis?
Why is it likely that gluconeogenesis and glycolysis are evolutionarily
related?
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24. What are the light and dark reactions of photosynthesis? In
what sense is the "photo-" term inapplicable to the dark
reactions, and ”-synthesis" inapplicable to the light
reactions?
25. Which set of reactions, light or dark, is evolutionarily related
to gluconeogenesis? Which is believed to be older?
26. How has the straight chain of successive reactions found in
gluconeogenesis and glycolysis been turned into a cyclic process
in the Calvin cycle? What does the Calvin cycle accomplish?
27. How do the chemosynthetic bacteria find ways of replacing the
light reactions of photosynthesis?
28. What is meant by cyclic and noncyclic photophosphorylation?
Which is more characteristic of purple sulfur bacteria? How do purple
sulfur bacteria obtain NADH? How do they obtain ATP?
29. How do purple nonsulfur bacteria obtain ATP? Which kind of
photophosphorylation do they use? How do they obtain NADH?
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