CELLS ARE US!

Name ______________
Date __________

GO TO: http://peer.tamu.edu/curriculum_modules/Cell_Biology/module_3/index.htm
Keep clicking next when needed to get the info to answer the questions below.

1. How is energy defined?

2. What is the difference between potential & kinetic energy?

3. What do we use heat for?

4. What do living organisms need energy for?

a.
b.
c.

5. How do nutrients get to the cell?

6. What is glucose? Where does it come from?

7. What organelle processes the glucose once it’s inside the cell?

8. Name the process in which glucose is converted to energy for the cell.

9. Why do cells die?

10. What are mitochondria made of?

11. Why do mitochondria have all those

membranes?____________________________________________________
12. Why is there DNA in the mitochondria? ____________________________
13. Why do you not want oxygen free radicals in your cells?-
_______________________________________________________________.
14. Scientists first discovered that mitochondria were "energy factories" by measuring
their oxygen consumption and ______ .
15. Why does your body need oxygen? _______________________________

16. What molecule traps & releases energy? _________________

17. Where does body heat come from? _________________________________

18. What happens in glycolysis?

______________________________________________________________

19. In the Kreb’s cycle, what are the products? ___________________________

20. The Kreb’s cycle sustains itself as long as ___________ & ____________ are
present.

21. What do the proteins in the mitochondria do?

___________________________________________________________

22. No __________________ is used in glycolysis.

23. When oxygen is scarce, pyruvic acid can accumulate and is converted to
________________ which causes _____________________________

24. In the Kreb’s cycle, __________ atoms give off free _____________ that can
release energy.

25. Electron’s energy are captured by ______________and stored in the

_____________ bonds.

26. The phosphate bond stores energy like a _________________

27. In electron transport, ___________ are transported through a series of proteins.

28. The electrons are attracted to the proteins because they have a ____________
charge & electrons have a ________________ charge.