Respiration

[Doogie Howser]

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how much about respiration do you really need to know? do i need to memorize the entire glycolosis, citric acid, uric acid cycle and how they interact via that bicycle biochem style with the enzymes and cofactors and all of that crap?

same thing with the electron transport chain in mitochondria and photosynthetic reactions, i had to know that pretty in depth for biochem, whats the level of detail needed to succeed in the dat.

i really hope that you guys don't come back and tell me to take biochem again 😱

 

[fancymylotus]

how much about respiration do you really need to know? do i need to memorize the entire glycolosis, citric acid, uric acid cycle and how they interact via that bicycle biochem style with the enzymes and cofactors and all of that crap?

same thing with the electron transport chain in mitochondria and photosynthetic reactions, i had to know that pretty in depth for biochem, whats the level of detail needed to succeed in the dat.

i really hope that you guys don't come back and tell me to take biochem again 😱

the basics...not on a biochem level. if you took biochem,you know more than enough...BUT: you might want to know that hexokinase is the enz that turns glucose into g6p. it may appear on your test. just maybe😉 and you might want to know that the enz for photosynthesis are located on the thylakoid membrane. that may show up too😉

 

[Streetwolf]

How much ATP is made? Gross + net? Where do you lose some ATP (in other words, where do the ATP go which would account for the difference between gross and net)? How much ATP is made during glycolysis? Everything else? Where does each part of respiration occur in the cell?

What's the start + end products of glycolysis? How many pyruvates per glucose molecule? How many turns of the Krebs cycle? How much FADH / NADH, etc? What's the general formula that includes C6H12O6, CO2, H2O, etc?

What's the final electron acceptor? What becomes of it?

I think that's a pretty good idea of what to expect. I wouldn't go into cofactors, intermediates, etc. Glycolysis has 10 steps and a year ago I knew all the intermediates, cofactors, and mechanisms, but I'll be damned if I had to know any of that for the DAT.