Cellular Respiration: What Food is For

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Answer the following questions:



1. What are the 3 types of organisms that make their own food?



2. What are photoautotrophs?



3. What are chemoautotrophs?



4. Which organ requires the most energy to function?



5. What is the "big picture" in cellular respiration?



6. In the analogy provided in the video, what does the paycheck, bank, and money represent?



7. When your body converts food into chemical energy, most of the energy is lost as _______?



8. What is the first process of cellular respiration? Location? Starting? Products?



9. What is the structure of the mitochondria? (Provide an image)



10. Where does the TCA cycle (Krebs Cycle) occur in the mitochondria?



11. What must happen to pyruvate before it enters the TCA cycle?



12. As the TCA cycle progresses, bonds are broken to relase carbon.  What does carbon bind with and what molecule is generated?



13. What are the electron carriers in the TCA cycle?



14. Where does the ETC occur?



15. The energy lost from electrons as it move along the ETC is used to perfrom what process?



16. What is the final electron acceptor at the end of the ETC?



17. Which process is more efficient at making ATP?



18. What are the reactants of cellular respiration?



19. What are the products of cellular respiration?



20.  How does the structure of the mitochondria relate to its function?