Mark the respiration bingo board

Exercise and reference answers

Clues and terms

1. Clue

   Partial oxidation of glucose to two molecules of pyruvic acid, in the cytoplasm

   Item

   Glycolysis

2. Clue

   What lactate dehydrogenase makes from pyruvic acid in a muscle short of oxygen

   Item

   Lactic acid

3. Clue

   Enzyme that converts sucrose into glucose and fructose

   Item

   Invertase

4. Clue

   Enzyme that phosphorylates glucose to give glucose 6 phosphate

   Item

   Hexokinase

5. Clue

   Cyclic pathway that opens when an acetyl group condenses with oxaloacetic acid

   Item

   Krebs cycle

6. Clue

   Inner membrane carrier that also takes reducing equivalents from FADH2

   Item

   Ubiquinone

7. Clue

   Small mobile protein that ferries electrons between complex III and complex IV

   Item

   Cytochrome c

8. Clue

   Complex V, built from an F1 headpiece and an F0 proton channel

   Item

   ATP synthase

9. Clue

   Word for a pathway that serves breakdown and synthesis at the same time

   Item

   Amphibolic

Instructions

Read each clue and tap the cell it names, until a line of three is marked.

Explanation