CHAPTER 9 READING GUIDE

1.        Food serves two important functions in living things.  What are those two things?

2.       Give the molecular formula for glucose.

3.       If oxygen is present what are the three processes (in order) of cellular respiration?

4.       Give the chemical and word equations for cellular respiration?

5.       What is produced from capturing the chemical energy in food molecules?

6.       Where do glycolysis, Kreb’s cycle and the electron transport chain take place? (Read the diagram on page 222)

7.       What is produced (made) and how much of each substance is produced from one molecule of glucose during glycolysis?

8.       What are the products of Kreb’s cycle?(see the diagram on page 229)

9.       What happens in the electron transport chain?