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| 5311162351 | fermentation | A catabolic process that makes a limited amount of ATP from glucose (or other organic molecules) without an electron transport chain and that produces a characteristic end product, such as ethyl alcohol or lactic adic. | 0 | |
| 5311162352 | aerobic respiration | A catabolic pathway for organic molecules, using oxygen as the final electron acceptor in an electron transport chain and ultimately producing ATP. This is the most efficient catabolic pathway and is carried out in most eukaryotic cells and many prokaryotic organisms. | 1 | |
| 5311162353 | cellular respiration | The catabolic pathways of aerobic and anaerobic respiration, which break down organic molecules and use an electron transport chain for the production of ATP. | 2 | |
| 5311162354 | redox reaction | A chemical reaction involving the complete or partial transfer of one or more electrons from one reactant to another. | 3 | |
| 5311162355 | oxidation | The complete or partial loss of electrons from a substance involved in a redox reaction. | 4 | |
| 5311162356 | reduction | The complete or partial addition of electrons to a substance involved in a redox reaction. | 5 | |
| 5311162357 | reducing agent | The electron donor in a redox reaction. | 6 | |
| 5311162358 | oxidizing agent | The electron acceptor in a redox reaction. | 7 | |
| 5311162359 | electron transport chain | A sequence of electron carrier molecules (membrane proteins) that shuttle electrons down a series of redox reactions that release energy used to make ATP. | 8 | |
| 5311162360 | glycolysis | A series of reactions that ultimately splits glucose into pyruvate. Occurs in almost all living cells, serving as the starting point for fermentation or cellular respiration. | 9 | |
| 5311162361 | citric acid cycle | A chemical cycle involving eight steps that complete the metabolic breakdown of glucose molecules begun in glycolysis by oxidizing acetyl CoA (derived from pyruvate) to carbon dioxide; occurs within the mitochondrion in eukaryotic cells and in the cytosol of prokaryotes; together with pyruvate oxidation, the second major stage in cellular respiration. | 10 | |
| 5311162362 | oxidative phosphorylation | The production of ATP using energy derived from the redox reactions of an electron transport chain; the third major stage of cellular respiration. | 11 | |
| 5311162363 | substrate-level phosphorylation | The enzyme-catalyzed formation of ATP by direct transfer of a phosphate group to ADP from an intermediate substrate in catabolism. | 12 | |
| 5311162364 | acetyl CoA | The entry compound for the citric acid cycle in cellular respiration, formed from a two-carbon fragment of pyruvate attached to a coenzyme. | 13 | |
| 5311162365 | prosthetic group | Nonprotein components essential for the catalytic function of certain enzymes. | 14 | |
| 5311162366 | cytochrome | An iron-containing protein that is a component of electron transport chains in the mitochondria and chloroplasts of eukaryotic cells and the plasma membranes of prokaryotic cells. | 15 | |
| 5311162367 | ATP synthase | A complex of several membrane proteins that function in chemiosmosis with adjacent electron transport chains, using the energy of a hydrogen ion (proton) concentration gradient to make ATP. Found in the inner mitochondrial membranes of eukaryotic cells and in the plasma membranes of prokaryotes. | 16 | |
| 5311162368 | chemiosmosis | An energy-coupling mechanism that uses energy stored in the form of a hydrogen ion gradient across a membrane to drive cellular work, such as the synthesis of ATP. | 17 | |
| 5311162369 | proton-motive force | The potential energy stored in the form of a proton electrochemical gradient, generated by the pumping of hydrogen ions (H+) across a biological membrane during chemiosmosis. | 18 | |
| 5311162370 | alcohol fermentation | Glycolysis followed by the reduction of pyruvate to ethyl alcohol, regenerating NAD+ and releasing carbon dioxide. | 19 | |
| 5311162371 | lactic acid fermentation | Glycolysis followed by the reduction of pyruvate to lactate, regenerating NAD+ with no release of carbon dioxide. | 20 | |
| 5311162372 | obligate anaerobe | An organism that only carries out fermentation or anaerobic respiration. Such organisms cannot use oxygen and in fact may be poisoned by it. | 21 | |
| 5311162373 | facultative anaerobe | An organism that makes ATP by aerobic respiration if oxygen is present but that switches to anaerobic respiration or fermentation if oxygen is not present. | 22 | |
| 5311162374 | beta oxidation | A metabolic sequence that breaks fatty acids down to two-carbon fragments that enter the citric acid cycle as acetyl CoA. | 23 | |
| 5311162375 | NAD+ | Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, a coenzyme that cycles easily between oxidized (NAD+) and reduced (NADH) states, thus acting as an electron carrier. | 24 |
