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4.4 Study Guide | Overview of Cellular Respiration
Directions: Answer the questions using your notes, your knowledge, and or section 4.4 from the textbook.
1. What is cellular respiration?
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2. Why is cellular respiration called an aerobic process?
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3. Where does cellular respiration take place?
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4. What happens during glycolysis?
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5. What does it mean to say that glycolysis is an anaerobic process?
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6. In what two ways does cellular respiration seem to be the opposite of photosynthesis?
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7. In which two parts of a mitochondrion does cellular respiration take place?
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8. Write the chemical equation for the overall process of cellular respiration.
a. Identify the reactants, products, and the meaning of the several arrows.
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9. Explain what the equation of cellular respiration means.
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10. Sketch and label a mitochondrion with the following:
a. Reactants, products, & structures (Krebs cycle, electron transport chain, matrix, inner membrane).
Cellular Respiration
11. List the 4 steps of cellular respiration that take place in the mitochondrion
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12. What is the Krebs cycle?
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13. The prefix glycol- comes from a Greek word that means “sweet”. The suffix –lysis comes from a Greek
word that means “to loosen”. How are the meanings of these words parts related to the meaning of
glycolysis?
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