Questions for 6.1-6.6

1. Compare the processes and locations of cellular respiration and photosynthesis. Explain why it is accurate to say that life on Earth is solar-powered.

2. Describe and compare the processes of breathing and cellular respiration.

3. Provide the overall chemical equation for cellular respiration. Compare the efficiency of this process in cells to the efficiency of a gasoline automobile engine.

4. Explain how the human body uses its daily supply of ATP.

5. Explain how the energy in a glucose molecule is released during cellular respiration.

6. Explain how redox reactions are used in cellular respiration.

7. Describe the general roles of dyhydrogenase, NAD+, and the electron transport chain in cellular respiration.

8. List the cellular resions where glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation occur. Note wheter substrate-level phosphorylation or chemiosmosis occur at each of these sites.