Glycolysis, Respiration, and Fermentation

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Session Overview

This session will outline the cellular mechanisms for harvesting energy from glucose and related sugars. It will briefly outline glycolysis as a mechanism to generate ATP and discuss the fate of the pyruvate produced in glycolysis under anaerobic and aerobic conditions.

Learning Objectives

To understand how cells harvest chemical energy by oxidizing glucose to pyruvate.
To know the different ways that pyruvuate is catabolized based upon the presence and absence of oxygen.
To understand what fermentation is, when it occurs, and why it is important.
To understand what the Citric acid cycle is, when it occurs, and why it is important.
To understand what Oxidative Phosphorylation is, when it occurs, and why it is important.