Flashcards for NEET Biology: Respiration in Plants

EMP (Embden Meyerhof

Parnas) pathway

Occurs in cytoplasm

Glycolysis Common step in both

aerobic and anaerobic
respiration

Hexose is converted to two

molecules of pyruvate
1. Glycolysis (Cytoplasm)

2. Pyruvate to acetyl CoA by

pyretic dehydrogenase
Aerobic respiration (mitochondrial matrix)

3. TCA or Krebs cycle

(mitochondrial matrix)

Pyruvic acid to ethanol

and CO2
Alcoholic
Fermentation Enzymes- pyruvic acid
decarboxylase and
alcohol dehydrogenase
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Pyruvic acid to lactic acid

Lactic acid In muscles and some

bacteria
fermentation
Enzyme- lactate
dehydrogenase

Hans Krebs (Krebs cycle)

Tricarboxylic acid Citric acid cycle- In the first
cycle (TCA) step OAA reacts with acetyl
CoA to produce citric acid

36 or 38 ATP

Glycolysis- 6 or 8 ATP (2
Net gain of ATP per ATP and 2 NADH)
glucose in aerobic Transition reaction- 6 ATP
respiration (2 NADH)

TCA- 24 ATP (2 GTP, 6

NADH, 2 FADH2)
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Pyruvate to acetyl CoA

Isocitrate to 𝛼-
Decarboxylation
ketoglutarate
reactions
𝛼-ketoglutarate to
succinyl CoA
Glycolysis- 1,3-
bisphosphoglyceric acid to
Substrate level PGA
PEP to Pyruvic acid
phosphorylation
(ATP production) TCA- succinyl CoA to
Succinate (GTP is
produced)
Inner mitochondrial membrane

Complex I- NADH dehydrogenase

(FMN, Fe-S)

Complex II- Succinate

Electron transport dehydrogenase (FAD, Fe-S)
system (ETS) Complex III- Cytochrome bc1

Complex IV- Cytochrome c

oxidase (cyt a, a3, two Cu)

Complex V- ATP synthase (F0, F1)

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Cytochrome C and
Mobile electron
ubiquinone (UQ)
carrier

Carbohydrate- 1

Respiratory quotient Fat- 0.7

Protein- 0.9

Net gain of ATP in

2 ATP
fermentation