Chapter 7: Releasing Chemical Energy
o How does the textbook first define cellular respiration? Whatdoes this process make for a cell? What does it make it with?
o Explain figure 7.2 – Substrates and products linkphotosynthesis with aerobic respiration. Explain how photosynthesisand aerobic respiration are natural partners in life.
o What is the fundamental difference in anaerobic respirationand aerobic respiration?
o What is fermentation? Is this aerobic or anaerobicrespiration?
o Is a mitochondrion required in all organisms (aerobic andanaerobic respiration)
o When you exhale, you exhale CO2 gas, and breathing ismedically referred to as respiration. Can you draw a link between ahuman exhaling CO2 gas in a process called respiration, and theprocess called aerobic respiration that you are learning about?
o Memorize the summary equation for aerobic respiration
o What are the names of the three steps of aerobicrespiration
o What goes into each one….just the beginning.  Â
o What comes out of each one…what is being produced that isneeded
o Where do each of the three steps occur inside a cell?
o What is the alternate name of the citric acid cycle?
o In the Citric Acid Cycle, NADH and FADH2 are produced. What dothese NADH and FADH2 molecules provide to step 3 that is important? Â
o How many ATP are produced from each step of aerobicrespiration?
o Low carb diets often remove the sugar from the body that cellsneed in order to perform aerobic respiration. Yet, if aerobicrespiration stopped, the organism would die. Explain how lipids andproteins can feed into the aerobic respiration pathways in theabsence of carbohydrates (sugars)
o Critical thinking: Appreciate and understand that one of themost important reasons why you have evolved a heart, blood vessels,lungs, blood itself, red blood cells, and hemoglobin to carryoxygen and carbon dioxide, is simply to provide the cell,
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specifically the mitochondrion, with all of the resources itneeds to make ATP.
