levo

Cellular Respiration

The Krebs cycle

  • 3 things to know
  • Components 01, 02 and 03

Overview

Recall questions on where the Krebs cycle happens, forming citrate from acetyl coenzyme A and oxaloacetate, decarboxylation and dehydrogenation, the carbon dioxide, reduced NAD, reduced FAD and ATP produced per turn and per glucose, its purposes, and why it stops without oxygen.

What you need to know

Answer each one before you reveal it.

Your recallNot started
Key term

Describe how citrate is formed at the start of the Krebs cycle.

Key term

By what two types of reaction is citrate converted back to oxaloacetate?

Key term

Account for the number of carbon atoms in citrate and in oxaloacetate.

Questions from this subtopic

Each one with the model answer underneath.

  1. 1

    Where in the cell are the enzymes of the Krebs cycle located?

    Model answer

    In the matrix of the mitochondrion.

  2. 2

    Describe how citrate is formed at the start of the Krebs cycle.

    Model answer

    The two-carbon acetyl group is transferred from acetyl coenzyme A to the four-carbon oxaloacetate, forming the six-carbon compound citrate, and coenzyme A is released.

  3. 3

    By what two types of reaction is citrate converted back to oxaloacetate?

    Model answer

    Decarboxylation, in which carbon dioxide is removed, and dehydrogenation, in which hydrogen is removed to a coenzyme.

  4. 4

    How many molecules of carbon dioxide are released in one turn of the Krebs cycle?

    Model answer

    Two.

  5. 5

    Account for the number of carbon atoms in citrate and in oxaloacetate.

    Model answer

    Oxaloacetate has four carbon atoms and gains two from the acetyl group to give the six of citrate, and the two carbons lost as carbon dioxide return it to four.

  6. 6

    State the reduced coenzymes produced in one turn of the Krebs cycle.

    Model answer

    Three molecules of reduced NAD and one of reduced FAD.

Other ways to work this

The same content, four other ways.

What is inside Levo

Six ways to work the same material.

1Closed book
2Open book
3Closed book

The 3-step method, run for you

Answer cold, learn it, then prove it stuck. Levo tracks the jump between your first attempt and your last.

The Developing Cell: Cell Division and Cell Differentiation
The Developing Individual: Meiosis, Growth and Development
The Development of Species: Evolution and Classification
Cells and Microscopy

Cram a whole paper in one sitting

Sort every topic into what you know and what you do not, then drill only the weak ones.

measles and .
tuberculosismalariacholera

Blank Blitz makes facts automatic

Rapid timed gap-fills on the terms and numbers you need to recall without thinking.

ABrain tissue is metabolically expensive.
BA high-quality diet is needed to sustain it.
CThe large head makes birth difficult.

Build It gets the exam shape right

Assemble a full-mark answer from its marking points, in the order an examiner wants them.

Core body temperature is normally about 37 °C.
TrueFalse

Test It catches misconceptions

Spot the fault in a statement. The traps are the mistakes students actually make.

721941163128510

Brain Breaks between sessions

Short focus games to reset attention, so the next set lands better than the last.

Every question in Cellular Respiration, on a schedule.

Attempt a question from memory, write the correct version, then attempt it again. Levo records the jump between your first attempt and your last, and brings each question back on the day you are due to forget it.

Or £46 a year, about £3.83 a month. Cancel anytime.