For example, the monosaccharide glucose , the most basic form of carbohydrate can be combined with oxygen. The high-energy electrons that are found in the glucose are transferred to the oxygen and potential energy is released. The energy is stored in the form of ATP. This final process of cellular respiration takes place on the inner membrane of the mitochondria.
Instead of all the energy being released at once, the electrons go down the electron transport chain. The energy is released in small pieces and that energy is used to form ATP.
See below to understand more about the stages of cellular respiration including the electron transport chain. Forum Question: How many water molecules are produced by cellular respiration? Featured Answer! Cellular respiration can be written as chemical equations. An example of the aerobic respiration equation is in Figure 3. Below are examples of aerobic respiration and anaerobic cellular respiration : lactic acid fermentation and alcoholic fermentation.
Most prokaryotes and eukaryotes use the process of aerobic respiration. As mentioned above, it is the process of cellular respiration in the presence of oxygen. Water and carbon dioxide are the end products of this reaction along with energy. See Figure 3. In lactic acid fermentation, 6 carbon sugars, such as glucose are converted into energy in the form of ATP. However, during this process lactate is also released, which in solution becomes lactic acid.
See figure 4 for an example of a lactic acid fermentation equation. It can occur in animal cells such as muscle cells as well as some prokaryotes. In humans, the lactic acid build-up in muscles can occur during vigorous exercise when oxygen is not available.
The aerobic respiration pathway is switched to the lactic acid fermentation pathway in the mitochondria which although produces ATP; it is not as efficient as aerobic respiration.
The lactic acid build-up in muscles can also be painful. Alcoholic fermentation also known as ethanol fermentation is a process that converts sugars into ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide. It is carried out by yeast and some bacteria. Alcoholic fermentation is used by humans in the process of making alcoholic drinks such as wine and beer. During alcoholic fermentation, sugars are broken down to form pyruvate molecules in a process known as glycolysis.
Two molecules of pyruvic acid are generated during the glycolysis of a single glucose molecule. These pyruvic acid molecules are then reduced to two molecules of ethanol and two molecules of carbon dioxide. The pyruvate can be transformed into ethanol under anaerobic conditions where it begins by converting into acetaldehyde, which releases carbon dioxide and acetaldehyde is converted into ethanol.
Figure 5 shows an alcoholic fermentation equation. Methanogenesis is a process only carried out by anaerobic bacteria. These bacteria belong to the phylum Euryarchaeota and they include Methanobacteriales, Methanococcales, Methanomicrobiales, Methanopyrales, and Methanosarcinales. Methanogens only occur in oxygen-depleted environments, such as sediments, aquatic environments, and in the intestinal tracts of mammals. There are 3 pathways for methanogenesis:. This process involves activating acetate into acetyl-coenzyme A acetyl-CoA , from which a methyl group is then transferred into the central methanogenic pathway.
Acetoclastic methanogens split acetate in the following way:. Acetoclastic methanogenesis is performed by Methanosarcina and Methanosarcinales and is most often found in freshwater sediments. Here, it is thought that acetate contributes to around two-thirds of the total methane formation on earth on an annual basis.
In methylotrophic methanogenesis, methanol or methylamines serve as the substrate instead of acetate. This process can be observed in marine sediments where methylated substrates can be found. Some acetoclastic methanosarcinales and at least one member of the Methanomicrobiales can also use this second pathway. Finally, hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis is a process that is used by Methanobacteriales, Methanococcales, Methanomicrobiales, Methanopyrales, and Methanosarcinales i.
In this reaction, hydrogenotrophic methanogens use hydrogen for the reduction of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, or formate according to the following:. Although methanogenesis is a type of respiration, an ordinary electron transport chain is not used. Methanogens instead rely on several coenzymes, including coenzyme F, which is involved in the activation of hydrogen, and coenzyme M, which is involved in the terminal reduction of CH3 groups to methane Figure 6. What are the 4 stages of cellular respiration?
There are 4 stages of the cellular respiration process. These are Glycolysis, the transition reaction, the Krebs cycle also known as the citric acid cycle , and the electron transport chain with chemiosmosis. Glycolysis is a series of reactions that extract energy from glucose by splitting it into 2 molecules of pyruvate. Glycolysis is a biochemical pathway that evolved long ago and is found in the majority of organisms.
In organisms that perform cellular respiration, glycolysis is the first stage of the process. Before glycolysis begins, glucose must be transported into the cell and phosphorylated. In most organisms, this occurs in the cytosol. Glycolysis does refer to other pathways, one such pathway described is the Entner—Doudoroff pathway. This article concentrates on the EMP pathway. Glycolysis takes place in 10 steps. See figure 7. The enzyme hexokinase phosphorylates glucose using ATP to transfer a phosphate to the glucose molecule to form glucosephosphate.
This reaction traps the glucose within the cell. Glucosephosphate is isomerized into fructosephosphate. This involves the change of an aldose into a ketose. The respiration can be aerobic, which uses glucose and oxygen, or anaerobic which uses only glucose. Respiration must happen all of the time so that the organism can survive.
Respiration releases energy - it is an exothermic process. The energy is stored in molecules of ATP. ATP can be broken down in other processes in cells to release the stored energy. This occurs in several steps, as summarized in the following diagram.
Energy is needed at the start of glycolysis to split the glucose molecule into two pyruvate molecules which go on to stage II of cellular respiration. The energy needed to split glucose is provided by two molecules of ATP; this is called the energy investment phase. As glycolysis proceeds, energy is released, and the energy is used to make four molecules of ATP; this is the energy harvesting phase.
As a result, there is a net gain of two ATP molecules during glycolysis. During this stage, high-energy electrons are also transferred to molecules of NAD to produce two molecules of NADH, another energy-carrying molecule. Before pyruvate can enter the next stage of cellular respiration it needs to be modified slightly.
The transition reaction is a very short reaction which converts the two molecules of pyruvate to two molecules of acetyl CoA, carbon dioxide, and two high energy electron pairs convert NAD to NADH. Before you read about the last two stages of cellular respiration, you need to know more about the mitochondrion , where these two stages take place. A diagram of a mitochondrion is shown in Figure 4. The structure of a mitochondrion is defined by an inner and outer membrane.
This structure plays an important role in aerobic respiration. As you can see from the figure, a mitochondrion has an inner and outer membrane. The space between the inner and outer membrane is called the intermembrane space. The space enclosed by the inner membrane is called the matrix. The second stage of cellular respiration the Krebs cycle takes place in the matrix. The third stage electron transport happens on the inner membrane. Recall that glycolysis produces two molecules of pyruvate pyruvic acid , which are then converted to acetyl CoA during the short transition reaction.
These molecules enter the matrix of a mitochondrion, where they start the Krebs cycle also known as the Citric Acid Cycle.
The reason this stage is considered a cycle is because a molecule called oxaloacetate is present at both the beginning and end of this reaction and is used to break down the two molecules of acetyl CoA. The reactions that occur next are shown in Figure 4. This produces citric acid, which has six carbon atoms.
This is why the Krebs cycle is also called the citric acid cycle. After citric acid forms, it goes through a series of reactions that release energy.
Carbon dioxide is also released as a waste product of these reactions. This molecule is needed for the next turn through the cycle. Two turns are needed because glycolysis produces two pyruvic acid molecules when it splits glucose. After glycolysis, transition reaction, and the Krebs cycle, the glucose molecule has been broken down completely. All six of its carbon atoms have combined with oxygen to form carbon dioxide. The energy from its chemical bonds has been stored in a total of 16 energy-carrier molecules.
These molecules are:. The events of cellular respiration up to this point are exergonic reactions — they are releasing energy that had been stored in the bonds of the glucose molecule. It uses the energy that is released to form molecules of ATP, the energy-carrying molecules that cells use to power biochemical processes.
Cellular respiration involves many chemical reactions, but they can all be summed up with this chemical equation:.
Because oxygen is required for cellular respiration, it is an aerobic process. Cellular respiration occurs in the cells of all living things, both autotrophs and heterotrophs. All of them catabolize glucose to form ATP. The reactions of cellular respiration can be grouped into three main stages and an intermediate stage: glycolysis , Transformation of pyruvate , the Krebs cycle also called the citric acid cycle , and Oxidative Phosphorylation.
The first stage of cellular respiration is glycolysis. ATP is produced in this process which takes place in the cytosol of the cytoplasm.
Enzymes split a molecule of glucose into two molecules of pyruvate also known as pyruvic acid. Glucose is first split into glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate a molecule containing 3 carbons and a phosphate group. This process uses 2 ATP. Next, each glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate is converted into pyruvate a 3-carbon molecule. Energy is needed at the start of glycolysis to split the glucose molecule into two pyruvate molecules. These two molecules go on to stage II of cellular respiration.
The energy to split glucose is provided by two molecules of ATP. As glycolysis proceeds, energy is released, and the energy is used to make four molecules of ATP. As a result, there is a net gain of two ATP molecules during glycolysis. In eukaryotic cells, the pyruvate molecules produced at the end of glycolysis are transported into mitochondria, which are sites of cellular respiration.
If oxygen is available, aerobic respiration will go forward. In mitochondria, pyruvate will be transformed into a two-carbon acetyl group by removing a molecule of carbon dioxide that will be picked up by a carrier compound called coenzyme A CoA , which is made from vitamin B 5. Acetyl CoA can be used in a variety of ways by the cell, but its major function is to deliver the acetyl group derived from pyruvate to the next pathway step, the Citric Acid Cycle.
Before you read about the last two stages of cellular respiration, you need to review the structure of the mitochondrion, where these two stages take place. The space between the inner and outer membrane is called the intermembrane space. The space enclosed by the inner membrane is called the matrix.
The second stage of cellular respiration, the Krebs cycle, takes place in the matrix. The third stage, electron transport, takes place on the inner membrane. Recall that glycolysis produces two molecules of pyruvate pyruvic acid. Pyruvate, which has three carbon atoms, is split apart and combined with CoA, which stands for coenzyme A. The product of this reaction is acetyl-CoA. These molecules enter the matrix of a mitochondrion, where they start the Citric Acid Cycle.
The third carbon from pyruvate combines with oxygen to form carbon dioxide, which is released as a waste product. High-energy electrons are also released and captured in NADH. This produces citric acid, which has six carbon atoms.
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