Cellular respiration is what happens under aerobic conditions. Which simply means when oxygen is present. In the process of cellular respiration oxygen and sugars go through glycolysis which occurs in the cytosol to produce pyruvate. The pyruvate then goes into the mitochondria where it goes through the citric acid cycle and electron transport chain coupled with oxidative phosphorylation to produce energy in the form of ATP. Carbon dioxide is produced and voided as a byproduct from this process. The overall process of respiration sugars + oxygen becomes carbon dioxide + water and energy. Fermentation on the other hand is what happend and anaerobic conditions(when oxygen is not present). It only goes through glycolysis and the final producs from fermenation are ethanol/lactate.
In both NAD and FAD,
the vitamin B portion of the molecule is the active part.
Is this also true for CoA?
the vitamin B portion of the molecule is the active part.
Is this also true for CoA?
The difference between them has NOTHING to do with oxygen. It does when you're talking about humans but in general that has nothing to do with it. Basically when organisms get energy from something they move electrons. In fermentation you can imagine it as the electrons are taken out of the food, yielding electrons and a product (the food minus its electrons). This product is modified further and the electrons are dumped back onto it. In respiration the electrons are taken out of the food and dumped onto something TOTALLY different. The best something to use is oxygen but microbes can use other things like iron, sulfur, nitrates, etc. Humans and animals can't do this so when there's no oxygen we can't respire, and we ferment.