Useful Websites
- Space Plants
- Discovery Channel video clip about a guy who spent two weeks in an airtight container with a bunch of wheat plants
- Electron Transport in Mitochondria
- Thomas M. Terry of the University of Connecticut has created excellent animations of electron transport and the ATPase function. These animations help to explain how electron transport generates energy for the associated chemiosmosis to generate ATP.
- ATP Synthesis in Mitochondria
- Animation of ATP synthesis in mitochondria.
- Quia: Java Games
- Quiz yourself on the basics of photosynthesis and cellular respiration by playing a matching game or concentration.
- The Miracle of Fermentation
- You will need Macromedia's Shockwave player to view this animation on lactate (lactic acid) formation.
- Metabolic Pathways of Biochemistry
- Three-dimensional rotatable images of carbohydrate metabolism (glycolysis, citric acid cycle, etc.), lipid metabolism, protein metabolism, and oxidative phosphorylation.
- Introduction to Glycolysis
- This website provides a nice review of glycolysis.
- ATP and Biological Energy
- This chapter of M. J. Farabee's excellent online textbook will help you to learn how ATP is produced.
- Cellular Metabolism and Fermentation
- This chapter of M. J. Farabee's excellent online textbook will help you to learn about both aerobic and anaerobic respiration.
- Muscle Soreness and Weightlifting
- Alice explains why your muscles produce lactic acid and how you can avoid lactic acid production when weightlifting.
- Cellular Respiration and Fermentation
- This explanation includes a brief discussion of the role of B vitamins as coenzymes in the process of cellular respiration.
- Cellular Respiration
- The overview page shows you how cellular respiration is related to obtaining energy from food. After viewing this page, you can go on to look at the stages of cellular respiration and fermentation in greater detail.
- Use of Metabolic Poisons to Study Mitochondria Function
- A brief list of poisons that inhibit mitochondrial functioning.
