Cellular Respiration Study Guide: Follow the sequence provided here to prepare for your exam. I suggest spending 2-3 hours studying for the exam and more if you usually struggle on the unit exams. Email me with questions!

  1. Make Flashcards to review vocabulary

Cytoplasm

Mitochondria

Electron Transport Chain

NADH

FADH2

ATP Synthase

Glucose

Pyruvate/Pyruvic Acid

Substrate Level Phosphorylation

Oxidative Phosphorylation

Proton Motive Force

Citrate

Oxaloacetate

Anaerobic Respiration

Aerobic Respiration

Glycolysis

Kreb’s Cycle

Carbon Cycle

Fermentation

Lactic Acid Fermentation

Alcoholic Fermentation

Mitochondrial Membrane

ATP

ADP

Concentration Gradient

Cellular Respiration Study Guide: Follow the sequence provided here to prepare for your exam. I suggest spending 2-3 hours studying for the exam and more if you usually struggle on the unit exams. Email me with questions!

  1. Create a concept map to make connections between the necessary vocabulary words
  1. Answer guiding questions from study guide
  2. Describe what free energy is.
  3. Explain how life is able to adhere to the laws of thermodynamics and accomplish the following life processes:
  4. Growth
  5. Increase in Order/Maintain organization
  6. Decrease in Entropy
  7. Reproduction
  8. Describe how metabolic pathways maximize efficiency and control release of free energy.
  9. Describe methods of obtaining free energy by organisms.
  10. Describe the relationship of metabolic rate and size.
  11. Describe what happens if there is an excess of free energy or an insufficient amount of free energy for an organism.
  12. How can changes in free energy affect individuals, populations or ecosystems?
  13. Be able to solve a Gibbs free energy math problem.
  14. Describe the role of ATP in the production of cellular work.
  15. Compare exergonic and endergonic processes. Provide several examples of each.
  16. Compare anabolic and catabolic processes. Provide several examples of each.
  17. Compare/contrast the major features of chemoheterotrophic and photoautotrophic nutritional processes.
  18. Explain the necessity of electron shuttles in metabolic pathways.
  19. Explain the inputs, major processes, and outputs of glycolysis, fermentation, and aerobic cellular respiration.
  20. Trace the movement of energy and matter through all respiratory processes.
  21. Localize all respiratory processes to their locations in a typical eukaryotic cell.
  22. Explain the inputs, major processes, and outputs of the light reactions and the Calvin Cycle.
  23. Trace the movement of energy and matter through all photosynthetic processes.
  24. Localize all photosynthetic processes to their location sin a typical eukaryotic, autotrophic cell.
  25. Describe the process of chemiosmosis and compare its function in photosynthetic and respiratory pathways.
  26. Explain the relationship between photosynthesis and respiration at the subcellular, organismal, and ecosystem levels of organization.
  27. Compare the relative efficiencies of photosynthesis, anaerobic cellular respiration and aerobic cellular respiration.
  28. Explain how energetic requirements contribute to the adaptations of organisms. Provide examples to support your statements. (endothermic and ectothermic)
  29. Propose experimental designs by which the rate of photosynthesis and respiration can be measured and studied.
  1. Review lab data and procedure. Make a list of everything we used in the lab, why we used it
  1. Analyze example data from lab and be sure you can understand the questions.

Data Analysis – Graph the results below.

Identify the IDV: ______(goes on X axis)

Identify the DV: ______(goes on Y axis)

  1. This activity uses a number of controls. What conditions must remain constant to assure validity? ______
  2. According to the graph what is the relationship between the amount of O2 consumed and temperature? ______
  3. From the slope of the four lines on the graph, determine the rate of O2 consumption of germinating and dry peas during the experiments at room temperature and at 10oC. Recall that rate = y x. Record the rates in the table.

Condition / Show Calculations here / Rate
(mlO2/minute)
Germinating peas/ 10oC
Germinating peas/ room temp.
Dry peas/ 10oC
Dry peas/ room temp.
  1. How were the beads used in the lab? What two conditions did they allow you to measure the possible change in? ______
  2. What is the purpose of the KOH in this experiment? ______
  3. If you used the same experiment design to compare the results of respiration of a 25g reptile and a 25g mammal at 10oC, what results would you expect? Explain your reasoning. ______
  4. Why did the water move into the respirometers’ pipettes? ______
  5. Where do you think possible sources of error might in this experiment? ______
  6. How might available nutrients affect the rate of cellular respiration in the seeds? ______
  7. Describe the relationship between the amount of O2 consumed and time.

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Ms. Poole’s 5 Main Topics

  1. Data and procedural analysis from cellular respiration lab
  2. Anaerobic vs. Aerobic Respiration
  3. Evolutionary significance of mitochondria and glycolysis
  4. Big picture relationship to carbon cycle and energy
  5. ATP synthesis