BIO101

Aerobic Cellular Respiration: Harvesting energy from organic compounds using oxygen

œ Aerobic Fitness: A measure of the ability of the heart, lungs, and blood stream to supply O2 to the cells of the body during physical activity

œ Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR): The minimum amount of E on which an organism can live

œ ƒÀ-oxidation: The sequential removal of acetyl groups in the catabolism of fatty acids

œ Chemiosmosis: A process for synthesizing ATP using the E of an electrochemical gradient and the ATP synthase enzyme.

œ Chemoautotrauphs: Organisms that can build up all the organic compounds required for life from simple inorganic substance as an E source.

œ Cristae: The folds of the inner mitochondrial membrane

œ Deamination: The first step in protein catabolism, involving the removal of the amino group of an amino acid as ammonia

œ Electrochemical Gradient: A concentrati...