Respiration bingo

Exercise and reference answers

Clues and terms

1. Clue

   Splits glucose into two pyruvic acid molecules

   Item

   Glycolysis

2. Clue

   Runs in the mitochondrial matrix

   Item

   Krebs cycle

3. Clue

   Electron carriers on the inner mitochondrial membrane

   Item

   ETS

4. Clue

   The energy currency the cell spends

   Item

   ATP

5. Clue

   What each glucose is broken into, two at a time

   Item

   Pyruvic acid

6. Clue

   The anaerobic fate of pyruvate

   Item

   Fermentation

7. Clue

   Where pyruvate goes when oxygen is present

   Item

   Mitochondria

8. Clue

   A stem opening that lets gases diffuse

   Item

   Lenticel

9. Clue

   The final acceptor of electrons, reduced to water

   Item

   Oxygen

Instructions

Read each call, tap its term. Three in a line wins.

Explanation