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Q: Pyruvic acid must be converted to in order to enter the acitric acid cycle.?
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Does pyruvic acid enters the krebs cycle?

Pyruvic acid cycle does enter the Krebs cycle and is turned into acetyl coenzyme A.


Can pyruvic acid use in the Krebs cycle?

The pyruvic acid that is produced by glycolysis is used as the initial input for the Krebs Cycle (also called citric acid cycle). In the initial step of the Krebs Cycle, the pyruvic acid is converted to acetyl-CoA via pyruvate decarboxylation. This continues a series of chemical reactions leading to the production of 2 ATP molecules.


What does Krebs cycle start with?

The answer is pyruvic acid no it's not, this failure up here ↑ is wrong, the answer is acetyl, then two carbon molecules enter the cycle


When glucose is catabolized under aerobic conditions will cross the mitochondrial wall and enter the Kreb's cycle?

pyruvic acid


When does Calvin cycle begin?

When acetyl CoA and oxaloacetate is present.


How many turns can a single glucose molecule drive the Krebs cycle?

A single glucose molecule is able to drive the Krebs cycle 2 times. The Krebs Cycle is the series of chemical reactions that take place to provide all aerobic organisms with the ability to make energy.


What purpose does pyruvic acid serve?

Pyruvic acid (or pyruvate) is simply one of the compounds in the metabolic pathway from sugars to carbon dioxide and water. From pyruvate (a three cabon unit) either one of two reactions can occur. It can react to form lactose or lose a carbon dioxide molecule to become a two carbon unit and enter the Krebs cycle.


How many pyruvates enter the Krebs cycle from glycolysis in one given cycle?

Glucose is a six carbon sugar when glycolysis is over it is split into two three carbon molecules called pyruvic acid (pyruvates). When this is done the link cycle begins (second stage of respiration) . In the link reaction the pyruvic acid loses a carbon that becomes CO2. The remaining two carbons are called acetic acid. This then meets enzyme coenzyme A and becomes acetylcoenyme A. This combination is the start of the kreb's cycle.


What process occurs after glycolysis?

aerobic oxidatio of pyruvic acid after pyruvic acid is form it get transfer to mitochondria. as soon as pyruvic acid enter to mitochondria it get oxidise to c02 in the reaction called oxidative decarboxylation. here 1st it get decarboxylate and then it get oxidised by the help of enzyme called pyruvate dehydrogenase. nd this enzym is made up of decarboxylase,lipoic acid amid tpp [thiamine pyrophosphate] nd in the presence of some cofactor such as vit b1 nd mg ions. reaction given below pyruvate + NAD+ + co-A = acetyl co-A + NADH + H+ + c02


How many of glucose carbons are converted t co2 at the end of aerobic respiration?

6 molecules. 2 molecules of 3 carbon containing pyruvic acid enter the glycolytic stage via a 2 carbon acetyl coA each producing 3 CO2 per cycle. Glucose contains 6 carbons so only 6 available for CO2.


What chemical enters the mitochondria to continue respiration?

In aerobic respiration of glucose in eukaryotes, two molecules of pyruvic acid is produced in the cytoplasm by glycolysis of one molecule of glucose. The pyruvic acid then enters the mitochondria to go through the Krebs cycle, which will break down the pyruvic acid into carbon dioxide, which is then excreted. Putting a molecule of pyruvic acid through the Krebs cycle yields 1 molecule of ATP (2 ATP per glucose), but importing the pyruvic acid into the mitochondria costs 1 ATP molecule, so the net gain of ATP from the Krebs cycle is +0. Hydrogen ions and high-energy electrons from glycolysis also need to be imported into the mitochondria to the electron transport chain, which is where the mother-lode of ATP comes from (34 ATP per glucose molecule). Other molecules such as fatty acids and amino acids typically don't undergo glycolysis, but instead are imported directly into the mitochondria where they enter the Krebs cycle somewhere depending on their molecular structure.


What is the result of glycolysis?

Glycolysis starting with glucose results in the production of 2 x pyruvic acids per glucose which continue on in to the mitochondria, in the presence of oxygen, for complete breakdown; a net gain of 2 x ATP and the production of 2 x NADH2 which can enter the mitochondria and via their donated electrons give rise to 3 x ATP per NADH2 inn the presence of oxygen.