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| If found, energy is readily accessible from _________. |
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| Why do cells need an energy "currency?" |
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| Allows specialization of energy-creation machinery, allows energy storage in a non-transient form, enables coupling of energetic reactions. |
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| Large, intermembrane, multi subunit, located in the inner mitochondrial membrane. Creates ATP through oxidative phosphorylation. |
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| ATP Synthase works best with... |
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| high levels of H+ outside the membrane, low levels of H+ inside the membrane. |
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| Where does the electron transport chain take place? |
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| In the inner membrane and cristae of the mitochondrion. |
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| In the last step of the electron transport chain, molecular oxygen was used as the final low-energy electron acceptor. Where does the oxygen come from? |
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| From your lungs and cardiovascular system. |
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| How does the electron transport chain work? |
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| Electrons are carried from one complex to another by Q or cytochrome C; Q also shuttles protons across the membrane. Complexes I and IV use the potential energy released by the redox reactions to pump protons from the mitochondrial matrix to the intermembrane space. |
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