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Oxygen Cycle

The continuous cycle of oxygen through the environment and biochemical pathways of organisms.


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Multicellular prokaryote

... Each single bacterium in a group still maintains an individual life cycle, and does not depend on the group for survival. ***Also, Cyanobacteria ... . Did you know the first process of photosynthesis did not produce oxygen (anoxygenic photosynthesis) as a by-product! Bacteria eventually adapted ...

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by chrisPbacon
Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:21 am
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Multicellular prokaryote
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Re: TCA inhibitor

... electrons are from pyruvate being oxidized in tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, while complex II is actually part of the TCA cycle being succinate ... electrons from complex I can be still transported onto complex III and oxygen can be consumed by complex IV ;)

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by JackBean
Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:28 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: TCA inhibitor
Replies: 3
Views: 2865

Re: TCA inhibitor

... intot he inter membrane space.Now, the reason that it can only stop oxygen consumption here is because the structure of succinate is C4O4 with ... is bonded to form fumarate by fumarase, the structure changes in the cycle, so as it is a muxh similar structure to succinate and only one step ...

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by billyfisher100
Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:21 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: TCA inhibitor
Replies: 3
Views: 2865

TCA inhibitor

In an experiment, malonate inhibits oxygen consumption induced by succinate, but does not inhibit oxygen consumption brought ... induced by pyruvate or malate. I know it has to do with where they are in the cycle, but I can't pinpoint the answer.

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by hannahzarzar
Sun Jan 08, 2012 2:50 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: TCA inhibitor
Replies: 3
Views: 2865

Re:

... energy pathways are what occur in the mitochondria. That is Krebs cycle and oxidative phosphorylation, excluding glycolisis that occurs in ... of some final electron acceptor. Most people know this to refer to oxygen as in the case of aerobic respiration which talks about oxygen usage ...

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by daniel.kurz
Fri Nov 18, 2011 3:07 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Mitochondrial energy pathways
Replies: 9
Views: 3515
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