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How do you make sense of cellular respiration, glycolysis, Krebs cycle, etc.?
I'm trying to help a high school biology student with his biology (even though my background is in physics).
We both read material today in his book on glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and electron transport chains. And we both found it to be an avalanche of jargon and nearly impossible to decipher. There's just too much jammed into a few pages in the text.
Are there other sources that we could read that would go through the material in more manageable chunks? What are some better books or web resources we could try?
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- smelly picklesLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
Diagrams are your friend.
They are easier to understand, but it is important to know not only what happens, but how and why. Diagrams only supply the what.
Source(s): http://ghs.gresham.k12.or.us/science/ps/sci/soph/e... http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG/ecb/outli... http://faculty.clintoncc.suny.edu/faculty/Michael.... - 5 years ago
Cellular respiration is a long complicated process. Here is a simple explanation of what goes on: As a summery, glucose gets broken down into CO2. ATP or adenosine triphosphate holds energy in its phosphate groups. When it releases energy, it loses a phosphate group to become ADP or adenosine diphosphate. ADP can gain a phosphate group to become ATP. However this requires energy. This energy comes from the electrons on the hydrogens in glucose, which eventually get transferred to O2 to form H2O. That is why O2 is a reactant and H2O is a product. NAD (Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) is a large molecule that transfers the hydrogens and electrons from glucose to O2. When NAD has a hydrogen it is known as NADH. When it doesn't have a hydrogen it is known as NAD+.
- 1 decade ago
depends on level, if its for high school student, just need to know the input, end product and where the cycle happens. As for college biochem, you pretty much need to memorize ever intermediate step.
