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At the end of the citric acid cycle most of the energy remaining from the original glucose is stored in where?
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As reducing agents NADH and FADH2, with NADH holding the majority
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Does glucose store energy?
After the energy from sunlight, glucose is probably the most important molecule on earth. In photosynthesis, energy from sunlight is converted into chemical energy stored in the chemical bonds of glucose. But sunlight remains the ultimate source of energy for almost all species on the earth.
What is the ability to do work?
Energy
Which food gives us energy quickly?
Sugar is the most readily form of energy to be used by the body.
How do we get energy?
Food or glucose
Does glucose have chemical energy or light energy?
By light, ATP is produced (ATP is the most basic form of usable energy in organisms). Further, during "dark phase", CO2 is incorporated into carbohydrates, thus forming glucose.
What nutrient can yield energy the quickest in the citric acid cycle?
glucose
What is the original source of energy for your body?
Glucose oxydation
How does glucose get used when Cells use energy?
Cellular Respiration is the process in which a Cell turns Glucose into ATP. Both glucose and oils are fed into the Kreb's citric acid cycle - one CH2 'monomer' at a time - and Atp is prodigiously produced. So the basic Answer is that the Cell turns glucose into biochemically usable energy.
What fraction of the carbon dioxide exhaled by animals is generated by the reactions of the citric acid cycle if glucose is the sole energy source?
Two thirds of it
The type of energy released when glucose is broken down?
The process of the breakdown of glucose to release energy happens in two different ways. One of them is called the citric cycle and yeilds the largest amount of energy, and the other is the lactic acid cycle which works when the oxygen supply is low.
What molecule is required for aerobic conditions?
The glucose molecule is required for aerobic conditions. Glucose is broken down into molecules that along with oxygen enter the citric acid cycle. This produces energy during aerobic conditions.
Which is easier to use as an energy source ATP or glucose?
The whole point of cellular respiration is to harness energy from the original source, glucose, and transform it into a usable and stable source, ATP.
What is the process that cells of organisms perform in order to release energy from glucose?
This process is called glycolysis. It is also called the citric acid cycle or the Krebs's cycle.
The process of making energy from glucose is called what and is what kind of process?
Glucose is broken down in several steps of cellular respiration. The three main steps in cellular respiration are, in chronological order, Glycolysis, Oxidative decarboxylation of pyruvate, and the Krebs Cycle (aka The Citric Acid Cycle). Each of these processes further break down glucose and extracts the energy from the bonds. That energy is then converted and used to make ATP. ATP which is the main energy molecule used by cells.
Is citric acid powder the same as energy?
No. Citric acid is matter. Energy is that which allows change in matter in the form of heat and movement.
What contains more energy glucose or pyruvate?
glucose
What is repiration and how do it work?
Respiration, also called cellular respiration, is the process when animal/plant cells break down glucose to release its energy. Respiration occurs in two stages: (1) Glycolysis, (2) Krebs Cycle/ citric acid cycle. Stage 1, glycolysis, occurs in the cytoplasm, when glucose is broken down a little, and 2 ATP (energy storages) are made. Stage 2, the Krebs Cycle/ citric acid cycle, occurs in the mitochondria of a cell, when the glucose molecules are really broken down; a large amount of energy is released, in the form of 34 ATP! Added together, the net total of ATP is 34. The cell will later use this energy to help the organism function.
