Understanding Glycolysis - AP Biology (2024)

Pyruvate

All of the answer choices are involved in glycolysis.

Oxygen

Glucose

ATP

Correct answer:

Oxygen

Explanation:

Oxygen is neither a product nor reactant in glycolysis. Glycolysis is unique in that it takes place within the cytoplasm of the cell and does not require oxygen. It is an anaerobic reaction that produces pyruvate, NAD, and ATP. Know the products and reactants of glycolysis.

Gluconeogenesis

Light dependent reaction

Oxidative phosphorylation

Krebs cycle

Glycolysis

Correct answer:

Glycolysis

Explanation:

The correct answer to this question is glycolysis.

We can know this if we remember that glycolysis is a ten step anaerobic, not aerobic pathway that uses the 6 carbon sugar known as glucose and converts it to 2 pyruvate molecules. All of the other answers do not use glucose and convert it to pyruvate.

ATP

NADH

Heat

Pyruvate

Carbon dioxide

Correct answer:

Carbon dioxide

Explanation:

The correct answer to this question is carbon dioxide.

Carbon dioxide is not produced during glycolysis. Remember in glycolysis one glucose molecule yields 2 pyruvate, 2 ATP, and 2 NADH. Heat is also given off in form of energy as we went over before. Carbon dioxide is involved in other processes.

Citric acid cycle

Oxidative phosphorylation

Glycolysis and fermentation

Oxidation of pyruvate to acetyl-CoA

Fermentation and chemiosmosis

Correct answer:

Glycolysis and fermentation

Explanation:

The correct answer to this question is glycolysis and fermentation.

Glycolysis and fermentation occur in the cytosol of a eukaryotic cell. Chemiosmosis occurs in the inner mitochondrial membraneand thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts in eukaryotes. The citric acid cycle occurs in the mitochondrial matrix. Oxidative phosphorylation occurs in the mitochondria so the answer has to be glycolysis and fermentation

Ethanol

ATP

Pyruvate

Ammonium

Acetaldehyde

Correct answer:

ATP

Explanation:

The correct answer to this question is ATP.

Fermentation is the metabolic process that takes place in anaerobic environments to regenerate for glycolysis. ATP is the main product of cellular respiration and the molecular energy of the cell. The aerobic metabolism results in a very high yield of these energies because it can use oxygen as the final electron acceptor in the electron transport chain.

lactate . . .

alcohol . . .

lactate . . . ATP

lactate . . . carbon dioxide

Correct answer:

lactate . . .

Explanation:

Anaerobic respiration occurs when there is not enough oxygen necessary for pyruvate to be shunted to the citric acid cycle. In the absence of oxygen, lactate is formed. The purpose of forming lactate is to also regenerate , as can be used in a cyclical fashion to continue the process of cellular respiration. When oxygen supply returns, the pyruvate will be shunted away from the production of lactate and instead go to the citric acid cycle.

citric acid cycle

Krebs cycle

glycolysis

Calvin cycle

Correct answer:

chemiosmosis

Explanation:

Chemiosmosis is the coupling of the movement of electrons down the electron transport chain with the formation of ATP by utilizing the force of the proton gradient. Think about it this way, the creation of ATP is needed in both photosynthesis and respiration and this is why it is involved in both.

glycolysis is the first step in anaerobic respiration but not aerobic respiration

glycolysis can occur only with oxygen

glycolysis occurs in the cytoplasm

glycolysis leads to the production of 2 ATP, 1 NADH, and 2 pyruvate

glycolysis involves the production of G5P or glucose-5-phosphate

Correct answer:

glycolysis occurs in the cytoplasm

Explanation:

The process of glycolysis indeed occurs in the cytoplasm. Answer 'glycolysis can occur only with oxygen' is incorrect, because glycolysis can actually occur with or without oxygen,due tooxygen playing no role in glycolysis.

Answer 'glycolysis is the first step in anaerobic respiration but not aerobic respiration' is incorrect, because glycolysis is simply the first step in BOTH anaerobic respiration and aerobic respiration.

Answer 'glycolysis leads to the production of 2 ATP, 1 NADH, and 2 pyruvate' is incorrect, because the end product of glycolysis is 2 NADH, not 1 NADH.

Answer 'glycolysis involves the production of G5P or glucose-5-phosphate' is incorrect, because glycolysis involves the production of G6P, not G5P.

Lactic acid fermentation gives a short term solution to the ATP crisis.

Lactic acid fermentation uses up pyruvate.

Since oxygen is no longer present to accept the electrons in the ETC, it provides an alternative path to make ATP.

Lactic acid fermentation creates ATP.

Lactic acid fermentation replenishes NAD+ so that glycolysis can continue.

Correct answer:

Lactic acid fermentation replenishes NAD+ so that glycolysis can continue.

Explanation:

Since there is no more oxygen, we undergo anaerobic respiration, which in humans is lactic acid fermentation. Lactic acid does not produce any energy, so it doesn't solve the ATP crisis nor does it produce ATP. It is true that lactic acid fermentation does use up pyruvate, but so does the citric acid cycle. The importance is that lactic acid fermentation turns NADH into NAD+ so that it can be recycled into glycolysis to create ATP.

substrate level phosphorylation

aerobic respiration

lactic acid fermentation

reduction of glucose

alcohol fermentation

Correct answer:

lactic acid fermentation

Explanation:

When the body isn't getting enough oxygen, it undergoes lactic acid fermentation. The purpose of lactic acid fermentation is so that your body can generate ATP through glycolysis by turning pyruvate into lactate and in the processes regenerating NAD+. Since lactate is poisonous, we eventually have to breathe. When oxygen combines with lactate it turns into lactic acid, which in turn causes muscle soreness.