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Atp Lab Report

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Once upon a time in a town lived the townspeople. The town was not very big, it was made up of 3 families. These families lived separate from each other, but in order to survive all the families worked together to provide and make food for the town to eat. This food was called ATP.
One family, glycolysis, lived in the outskirts of the town, an area known as the cytoplasm. This area is not only home to them but you can find 2 phosphates, 2 ADPs, and 1 glucose growing at a time.Their job was to take glucose, which was found near their house, and break the 6 carbon molecule into two 3 carbon molecules. This was hard work and required the family to be well fed, they ate two ATPs knowing that they would be producing more. Phosphate that’s …show more content…

Creating CO2, this cleaving of carbons happens 3 times creating 3 CO2 for each citric acid. The krebs also turn some NAD+ into NADH. They do this 3 times. Also the Krebs take ADP and turn it into ATP. THey turn FAD into FADH2 as well. After all of this is done the Krebs are left with what they started again, one Oxaloacetic. Since two Citric acids are made because of the two pyruvates from the Glycolysis family, the family does this process twice. They also end up making a total of 6 NADHs, 2 ATPs, 2 FADH2s. The Krebs also receive the 2 ATPs, 2 NADHs from the Glycolysis family, also they have two NADHs from the pyruvate processing. So in total The Krebs family has a total of 4 ATPs, 10 NADHs, and 2 FADH2. They send this all to the third family, the Electron Transport Chain, (ETC).
The ETC lives on the edge of the Inner mitochondrial space on the border called Inner mitochondrial membrane. On one side of the house is the inner mitochondrial space on the other side is called the space between the membranes. The NADHs enter the house and electrons are taken and the provide energy for a pump to pump protons from the NADHs outside into the Space between the membrane. The family also does the same thing with The FADH2. THe NADHs become NAD+ again and the FADH2 become FAD+ as well. The electrons used to power the pumps move down the chain of pumps, being pulled by Oxygen at the

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