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Oxygen is one of the most electronegative elements in the biological world. This electronegativity is needed on the end of the electron transport chain. Electrons are passed from one complex or cytochrome to the next, and each successive molecule to be reduced needs to have a greater attraction for electrons than the last. So the end molecule, oxygen, needs to be electronegative enough to pull those electrons away, split and bond with two hydrogens to form water.
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What is oxygen needed for in the amoeba?
The amoebae is an eukaryote, so it uses oxygen for the same reason you do. Oxygen is the final electron acceptor in the process of oxidative phosphorylation that takes place in the mitochondria.
Another name for electron transport chain is?
oxidative phosphorylation
What type of phosphorylation does not require a membrane?
oxidative phosphorylation
What stage produces the most ATP when glucose is completely oxidized to carbon dioxide and water?
oxidative phosphorylation
Where does oxidative phosphorylation take place in a eukaryote?
Mitochondria
How the metabolic rate of an animal can be determined by measuring its rate of oxygen consumption.?
Oxygen is needed in ATP synthesis by oxidative phosphorylation.
What is oxygen needed for in the amoeba?
The amoebae is an eukaryote, so it uses oxygen for the same reason you do. Oxygen is the final electron acceptor in the process of oxidative phosphorylation that takes place in the mitochondria.
Photophosphorylation is most similar to?
oxidative phosphorylation in cellular respiration
What portion of aerobic respiration requires oxygen?
glycolysis, Krebs cycle, oxidative phosphorylation
Why is oxygen needed for?
Oxygen is used as an electron carrier in oxidative phosphorylation during aerobic respiration. If there's a lack of oxygen the body starts to respire anaerobically, which is nowhere near sufficient for the body's needs
Another name for electron transport chain is?
oxidative phosphorylation
The final electron acceptor of the electron transport chain that functions in oxidative phosphorylation is?
Oxygen is the final exceptor
What organnelle needs oxygen to make energy?
The mitochondria generates ATP by means of oxidative phosphorylation.
What is the final electron acceptor of the electron transport chain that functions in aerobic oxidative phosphorylation?
oxygen
What type of phosphorylation does not require a membrane?
oxidative phosphorylation
Which cells use oxidative phosphorylization?
Cells with mitochondria carry out oxidative phosphorylation. Oxidative phosphorylation involves the transfer of electrons in mitochondrial protein complexes that serve as electron donors and electron acceptors. The process yields molecular oxygen and energy in form of adenosine triphosphate.
Compare and contrast photophosphorylation and oxidative phosphorylation?
Oxidative phosphorylation is ATP synthesis driven by electron transfer to oxygen and photophosphorylation is ATP synthesis driven by light. Oxidative phosphorylation is the culmination of energy-yielding metabolism in aerobic organisms and photophosphorylation is the means by which photosynthetic organisms capture the energy of sunlight, the ultimate source of energy in the biosphere.
