Cellular Respiration

What name is given to the sugar that cells require, as a source of energy?

• sucrose

• fructose

• glucose

• verbose

The ways that cars burn gasoline, our cells use oxygen to burn glucose. Along the way, the cell converts glucose into a molecule called:

• DNA

• NAD

• ATP

• PMAT

Every atom in the universe consists of which 3 particles:

• protons, leptons, and nucleons

• protons, electrons, and neutrons

• zippons, pleurons, and emoticons

• protons, neutrons, and neutrinos

Organelles are like little factories that do specific jobs in our cells. Mitochondria are involved when glucose is burned to make ATP energy. Many people call mitchondria the ___________________ of the cell.

• powerhouses

• outhouses

• doghouses

• housewarmers

In order to burn glucose (a sugar with 6 carbon atoms), the glucose first has to be split apart. Remembering that the word lysis means "to split apart," what do you think the process of splitting glucose is called?

• hydrolysis

• glycolysis

• the lytic cycle

• splitosis

After glucose is split into two 3-carbon pieces called pyruvate, these pieces are burned to make more ATP energy. The guy who figured out how this works was called Hans Adolf Kreb. Based on that, what do you think this part of respiration is called?

• Glycolysis

• ETC

• the Kreb's cycle

• the Lollipop proces

Chemical reactions are just a way that atoms swap electrons. Mitochondria uses something called an electron transport chain to make energy. It's like a big water slide where the electrons fall down a gradient (hill) to make 34 units of ATP energy. Based on the picture, what do you think the little dudes called NADH and FADH2 are doing?

• They're waving hello.

• They're chasing Taylor's dog

• They're handing electrons up to the electron transport chain, so oodles of ATP energy can be made.

• They're helping the Amoeba Sisters produce a video.

When Taylor breathes, we say she's respiring. What gases does Taylor breathe in, then out?

• She breathes in helium, and breathes out nitrogen.

• She breathes in radon, and breathes out carbon dioxide.

• She breathes in hydrogen gas, and breathes out oxygen.

• She breathes in oxygen gas, and breathes out carbon dioxide.

On a cellular level, in a process called cellular respiration, Taylor's cells are using oxygen to burn _________________, in order to make __________ energy.

When oxygen is available to cells, the three steps by which glucose is turned into a whole lot of ATP are:

• prophase, metaphase, and telophase

• glycolysis, Kreb's cycle, electron transport chain

• cellular respiration

• meiosis, mitosis, and interphase