Friday, October 7, 2011

Bioenergetic reactions starts Monday!

Bioenergetic reactions= break the words down!= chemical reactions that produce energy and occur inside of living things.

This interactive takes a fun look at photosynthesis!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/photosynthesis.html

We will also cover aerobic ( with oxygen) respiration and anaerobic respiration ( with out oxygen). alcohol fermentation and lactic acid fermentation are two types of anaerobic respiration.


This is how sugar (glucose) gets turned into ATP inside your cells:

aerobic respiration overview


If you add them up, you'll see that 38 ATP are actually made, but two are used in the process so we say that a net total of 36 ATP are produced!


Image came from:
staff.jccc.net/pdecell/cellresp/respoverview.html