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Cellular Respiration Reading Guide
Directions: Read pages 131-145 in your textbook to answer the following questions.
1. What is cellular respiration?
2. What is the chemical equation that represents cellular respiration?
3. What are the 2 stages of cellular respiration?
a.
b.
4. Which stage produces the most energy?
5. Contrast aerobic and anaerobic:
6. What is the relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
7. What happens during glycolysis?
8. Use figure 7-3 on page 133.
a. How many carbon atoms are in glucose?
b. How many carbon atoms are in each molecule of pyruvic acid?
c. What molecule begins the process of glycolysis?
d. What are the products of glycolysis? (there are four molecules that leave the
process)
9. List the two types of fermentation. Give an example of an organism or cell that uses each.
a.
b.
10. What causes muscle fatigue and soreness? What is the name of the process that releases this
product?
11. What happens during the Krebs Cycle?
12. Use figure 7-10 on page 138. What two molecules from the Krebs Cycle will be used in the next
step to make more ATP in the electron transport chain?
13. How does the electron transport chain use high – energy electrons from glycolysis and the Krebs
Cycle?
14. Where in the cell do the above processes occur? (there are two locations)
15. What are the byproducts of cellular respiration?