Chapter Questions
Cite the ATP-consuming and ATP-generating steps in glycolysis.
Briefly specify major functions of the TCA cycle.
What are the major control sites in glycolysis?
What is the Pasteur effect? Explain in terms of regulation of metabolic flow into a pathway.
How is glucose synthesized from pyruvate?
Explain the major functions of the dark and light reaction phases in photosynthesis.
What are the major differences in photosynthesis between microbes and plants?
What is transamination? Provide an example.
Briefly explain the Crabtree Effect.
What are the major steps in aerobic metabolism of hydrocarbons? What are the end products?
What is nitrogen fixation? Compare the aerobic and anaerobic nitrogen fixation mechanisms.