Question

Cellular Respiration

What is RuBisco and what does it do?
What is the balanced chemical equation for cellular respiration?
What are the products of glycolysis?
Be able to compare and contrast cellular respiration and photosynthesis.
Study the Lactic acid fermentation and alcohblic fermentation pathways
Know what happens during each of these processes: (write a condensed bulleted summary for each) -Glycolysis of cellular
respiration, the Kreb's cycle of cellular respiration, the light-independent reactions of photosynthesis, the light dependent
reactions of photosynthesis
What are the products of the Kreb's cycle?
What stage of cellular respiration does carbon fixation occur?
Know the ATP accounting for cellular respiration
Why is Oxygen necessary for cellular respiration?

Answer 1

•What is RuBisco and what does it do?

~RuBisCO, is an enzyme that catalyses the first major step of carbon fixation, a process by which atmospheric carbon dioxide and water are converted to energy-rich molecules such as glucose, using sunlight. In green parts of plants, the protein RuBisCO can make up to 50 per cent of the total amount of the protein fraction. Thereby, RuBisCO is the key photosynthetic enzyme in green leaves of plants and is considered the most abundant protein present on earth.