THE INDIAN SCHOOL

XI
BIOLOGY
RESPIRATION IN PLANTS
1. The link between glycolysis, Krebs’ cycle and b-
oxidation of fatty acid or carbohydrate and fat metabolism is
a. oxaloacetic acid
b. succinic acid
c. citric acid
d. acetyl CoA.
2. Out of 36 ATP molecules produced per glucose molecule during respiration
a. 2 are produced outside glycolysis and 34 during the respiratory chain
b. 2 are produced outside mitochondria and 34 inside mitochondria
c. 2 during glycolysis and 34 during the Krebs cycle
d. all are formed inside mitochondria.
3. Oxidative phosphorylation is the production of
a. ATP in photosynthesis
b. NADPH in photosynthesis
c. ATP in respiration
d. NADH in respiration.
4. In glycolysis, during oxidation electrons are removed by
a. ATP
b. glyceraldehyde3phosphate
c. NAD +
d. molecular oxygen.
5. Define compensation point.
6. Name the enzyme responsible for the conversion of sucrose into glucose and
fructose.
7. What is the respiratory quotient?
8. How many ATP molecules are synthesized directly from one glucose molecule during
glycolysis?
9. What is the role of alcohol dehydrogenase?
10. How many net ATPs are synthesized when one glucose molecule is fermented to
alcohol or lactic acid?
11. Why is the TCA cycle so named? Where does it take place?
12. Where is the ETS present?
13. What is the economic importance of fermentation?
14. Explain the role of O in aerobic respiration.
15. Why is the respiratory pathway said to be amphibolic and not catabolic?
16. How does ATP synthesis take place in the mitochondria?
17. How many ATP molecules are produced during the oxidation of NADH and FADH?
18. Explain the first step of respiration that takes place inside mitochondria.
19. Name the various sites where different steps of aerobic respiration take place.
20. Differentiate between aerobic and anaerobic respiration.
21. What is the fate of NADH, FADH, and GTP synthesized in the citric acid cycle?
22. How many ATP molecules are produced at each step of aerobic respiration?