Respiration of lipids & carbohydrates
This activity uses the details about glycolysis, the link reaction and the Krebs cycle to develop an understanding of the way which lipids and carbohydrate molecules (other than glucose) are respired in this metabolic pathway to release the energy stored in the molecules producing ATP in cells. We explore why lipids have a higher energy yield per gram and how this is useful in hibernating animals? Which of these two...