Cellular

Respiration

How food is converted

into a usable form of
energy by the cell.
 Objectives:
A. Compare aerobic respiration to
anaerobic respiration.

B. Explain in general the processes

involved in cellular respiration.

C. Identify the products of each of the

processes of cellular respiration.
 Chemical energy is needed
by living things to carry out
life functions.

✓ Each Cell uses between 1-2 billion

ATP/min.
How many ATP’s are used each minute
by all 100 trillion cells in the body?
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
It is one of the most important compounds that cells
use to store and release energy.

Adenine Ribose Phosphate Group

 Proteins Carbohydrates Fats

Amino Sugars Glycerol Fatty

acids acids

Glycolysis

Glucose

Glyceraldehyde-3- P

NH3 Pyruvate

Acetyl CoA

Citric
acid
cycle

Oxidative
phosphorylation
Cellular Respiration

It is a process by which cells break down food

molecules into a usable form of energy, ATP

C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O + ATP

oxidation

C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O + 36ATP

reduction
 Cellular Respiration

1 Glycolysis

* Link Reaction (Pyruvate Oxidation)

2 Krebs Cycle (Citric Acid Cycle)

Electron Transport Phosphorylation

3 (Oxidative phosphorylation)
Glycolysis

Krebs Cycle

Oxidative
Phosphorylation
 Stages of Cellular Respiration
C6H12O6 + O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O + ATP
Cytosol
Glycolysis 2 ATP
Oxidize Glucose Make Pyruvate

Citric Acid Cycle (aka Krebs Cycle)

Mitochondrial matrix 2 ATP
Oxidize Pyruvate to Acetyl CoA Regenerate C molecules, give off CO2

Oxidative Phosphorylation (aka Electron Transport)

Inner Mitochondrial Membrane 32 ATP

Chemiosmosis ATP Synthesis

 Process Where? Phosphorylation Input Output
1. Glycolysis Cytosol Substrate Level 2 ATP + 4 ATP + 2
Glucose NADH + 2
pyruvate

2. Pyruvate → Mitochondrial N/A 2 pyruvate 2 CO2 + 2

Acetyl CoA Matrix NADH + 2
Acetyl CoA

3. Citric Acid Mitochondrial Substrate Level 2 Acetyl 6 NADH +

Cycle (Kreb’s) Matrix CoA 2 FADH2 +
2 ATP +
4CO2
4. Electron Inner Oxidative 10 NADH + ~ 32 ATP +
Transport Chain Mitochondrial 2 FADH2 + H2O
(ETC) Membrane O2

TOTAL Cytosol + N/A Glucose + H2O + CO2

Mitochondria O2 + 36 ATP
Link
Reaction
  Lactic Acid
 Alcoholic
1. Pyruvate is reduced directly by
1. CO2 released from pyruvate NADH to form lactate (lactate is the
then converted to acetaldehyde form lactic acid takes when it gains
2. Acetaldehyde reduced by e-)
NADH to ethanol 2. Human muscle cells do this
Summary when O2 is scarce
 Glycolysis – glucose → 2 Summary
pyruvates  Glycolysis – glucose → 2 pyruvate
 2 Pyruvate → Ethanol + CO2  2 pyruvate → 2 Lactate
 Comparing Photosynthesis &
Cellular Respiration
Photosynthesis Cellular Respiration

function energy capture energy releases

location chloroplasts mitochondria

reactants CO2 and H2O C6H12O6 and O2

products C6H12O6 and O2 CO2 and H2O

6CO2 + 6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2
equation C6H12O6 + 6O2 + 6H2O
energy
energy