Cellular Respiration

2. A chemical compound that serves as an intermediate in several central metabolic pathways in all organisms.
3. An organic cofactor.
5. Process of oxidizing food molecules, like glucose, to carbon dioxide and water.
7. Semifluid matrix between a cell´s plasma membrane ant its nucleoid.
10. Chemical compound composed of two oxygen atoms linked to a single carbon atom.
11. An anaerobic metabolic pathway by which cells harvest energy from organic molecules.
12. A type of metabolic reaction that results in the formation of ATP.
16. An important metabolic substrate for most living things.
18. Organelle that aerobic respiration is completed
19. Transferred to form two atp.
21. Common currency of energy expendutures in all cells.
22. Abbreviation of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide

1. A series of reactions that begins carbohydrate breakdown pathways in most types of cells
4. Third stage of aerobic respiration and also occurs inside mitocondria
6. The citric acid cycle after this first mediate
8. Transfers its electrons to cytochrome II
9. Second stage reactions start when two pyruvate formed by glycolysis enter the inner compartment of a mitochondrion.
13. Three-carbon end product of glycolysis
14. Pathway that use oxygen
15. Occur in the absence of oxygen.
17. A nucleotide essential in photosynthesis and glycolysis.
20. Protein that speed a reaction.