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| C.R. is the complex process in which cells make ATP by breaking down organic compounds. |
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| The three-carbon compound that is produced during glycolsis and needed for both the aerobic and anaerobic pathways of cellular respiration that follows glycolysis. |
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| The reduced form of NAD+; an electron-carrying molecule that functions in cellular respiration. |
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| Anaerobic describes a process that does not require oxygen. |
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| If oxygen is present in the cell's environment, pyruvic acid is broken down and NADH is used to make a large amount of ATP through the process known as aerobic respiration. |
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| The anaerobic breakdown of glucose to pyruvic acid, which makes a small amount of energy available to cells in the form of ATP. Glycolysis is an anaerobic process because it does not require the presence of oxygen. |
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| an organic molecule that serves as an electron carrier by being oxidized to NAD+ and reduced to NADH. |
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| The breakdown of carbohydrates by enzymes, bacteria, yeasts, or mold in the absense of oxygen. |
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| The chemical breakdown of carbohydrates that produces lactic acid as the main end product. |
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| The anaerobic process by which yeasts and other microoganisms break down sugars to form carbon dixoide and ethanol. |
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| A unit of energy equal to 1,000 calories. |
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