Cellular Respiration Worksheet

1. When you eat food that contains carbohydrates, you break down the carbohydrates into a monosaccharide called
____glucose________. If you don’t use this monosaccharide, you body can store it in the liver in the form of
____glycogen___________.

2. When your body metabolizes (breaks down) glucose, whether incompletely or completely, the first pathway glucose
molecules have to go through is _____glycolysis________

3. Where does this pathway take place? Cytoplasm

4. How many molecules of pyruvic acid are made from a single molecule of glucose? ______two molecules______

5.-6. Where can this product go to next? (broken down completely/incompletely)

the product enters in mitochondrion to form Acetyl Co-A

NADH give an electron to the product to form lactic acid

7. What determines which pathway is taken? When the oxygen is present

8. What molecule stores the high-energy electrons (and hydrogen) removed from glucose in glycolysis? _NADH_

8. How many reduced electron/hydrogen carrier molecules are produced in glycolysis? Two hydrogen carrier
molecules

9. How many net ATP molecules are made during glycolysis? Two ATP molecules

10. Via what process are these ATP molecules made? They are process in Substrate level phosphorylation

11. In glycolysis, a molecule of __glucose_____ is split into 2 molecules of pyruvate.

These molecules are ultimately converted into 2 _Acetyle CoA___.

12. What happens to the high-energy electrons (and hydrogen) held by NADH if there is no O 2 present?

If no oxygen is present, the pyruvate take the electrons and the hydrogen back to the NADH.

13. Explain why this happens.

This will happen when there are only a small amount of NAD+ molecules. It must be reused to keep glycolysis
going with additional glucose molecules. That means they need to release an electrons from NADH by giving
electrons to the some other molecules. The pyruvate can’t continue to the Krebs cycle because there is no
oxygen present, so pyruvate will receive electrons. It will allows the glycolysis to continue even when the oxygen
is not present.

14. In the Aerobic System (complete breakdown of glucose), ___the oxygen_________ is the final electron
acceptor.

15. In order for pyruvic acid to enter the Citric Acid Cycle/Kreb’s Cycle, it needs to be altered to ___Acetyl CoA_____

16. In the above process (#15 Formation of Acetyl CoA), how many of these molecules are produced? It produce two
molecules

17. In the above process (#15), how many ATP’s are produced directly? There are no ATP are produced directly

18. In the above process (#15) how many reduced electron/hydrogen carrier molecules are made per
pyruvic acid? They make one hydrogen carrier molecule

19. In the above process (#15) how many reduced electron/hydrogen carrier molecules are made per
glucose? They produced eight hydrogen carrier molecules

20. What brings the acetyl group into the Kreb’s Cycle? ___Coenzyme A_______

21. With what molecule does the acetyl group entering the Kreb’s Cycle join? __Coenzyme A _

22. What is the first intermediate compound in the Kreb’s Cycle? ____Citric acid____

23. In the Kreb’s Cycle (Citric Acid Cycle), how many ATP’s are produced directly per glucose? It produced two ATPs

24. In the Kreb’s Cycle (Citric Acid Cycle), how many reduced NADH’s are produced per glucose? Six NADH
molecules

25. In the Kreb’s Cycle (Citric Acid Cycle), how many reduced FADH 2’s are produced per Acetyl CoA? One FADH2
molecule

26. In the Kreb’s Cycle (Citric Acid Cycle), how many CO 2 are released per turn of the cycle? Two carbon dioxide
molecules

27. In the Kreb’s Cycle (Citric Acid Cycle), how many CO 2 are released per glucose? Four carbon dioxide molecules

From the beginning of Cellular Respiration: (the 3 stages covered so far)

28. How many ATP (net amount) have been produced thus far per glucose? It produced four ATP molecules

29. How many reduced NADH molecules have been produced thus far per glucose? It produced ten NADH molecules

30. How many reduced FADH2 molecules have been produced thus far per glucose? It produced two FADH2
molecules