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BIOL - 161 Vocab Ch 7
Vocabulary Chapter 7
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
12/06/2011

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Cyanobacteria
Definition
prokaryotes that evolved O2 producing photosynthesis
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Anaerobe
Definition
organism that requires oxygen
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Mitochondrion
Definition
site of aerobic respiration
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Cytochrome oxidase
Definition
enzyme that reduces O2 to water
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ATP synthase
Definition
enzyme responsible for ATP synthesis associated with electron transport chain
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Aerobe
Definition
organism that requires oxygen
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Alcoholic fermantation
Definition
the products are ethyl alcohol and CO2
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Lactic acid fermentation
Definition
pathway used by exercising muscles to oxidize NADH
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Substrate-level phosphorylation
Definition
ATP production associated directly with a carbon compound
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Krebs cycle
Definition
the enzymes for this are in the mitochondrial matrix
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Aerobic respiration
Definition
oxygen is a reactant in the final step
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FAD
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a coenzyme used only in the Krebs cycle
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NAD+
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a coenzyme used in glycolysis and Krebs cycle
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Glycolysis
Definition
the conversion of gluclose to two pyruvic acids
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Acetyl coenzyme A
Definition
carbon compound that enters the Krebs cycle
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