Question

What is the name of the chemicals made from glucose and nitrates using energy from respiration in plant, animal and microbial cells?

Answer 1

Hmm, the only metabolic path I can follow with your statement above are amino acids...

Answer 2

okay, sounds possible... i was thinking maybe startch or something because glucose is stored as starch however theres no involvment of nitrates here is there?

Answer 3

fx. glutamate + ATP -> Acyl-phosphate intermediate + NH3 + ADP -> glutamine + ADP

Answer 4

umm i dont understand any of that :S

Answer 5

Then I try draw it ^^

Answer 6

okay...

Answer 7

But first to comment on your idea. you are right nitrates are not involved in that... statchs is 100% carbonhydrats... no nitrogen in that.

Answer 8

But it could also be the urea cycle..

Answer 9

Thanks, i thought that :L

"The energy released by cellular respiration is stored in molecules of ATP, which the cell breaks down to release energy that it can use to do work."

so whats ATP?

Answer 10

ATP is also known as AdenosineTriPhosphate, and as the name say it is adenosine bound to 3 phosphate. The reason it is "energy-full" is becuase it have a large energy bound between the phosphate groups.. you can fx draw ATP like this: A-P-P-P whe the P-P bounds are energy-rich bounds... and then you know from physics that the energy of the world is constant so the energy relased from the bonds can be moved other to something else.

Answer 11

where*

Answer 12

over to*

Answer 13

okay but im only doing GCSE so i doubt i'd need that :S is the answer not carbohydrates or something like that?

Answer 14

Glucose is needed by cells for respiration.
Plants and algae store glucose as insoluble products. These include:
Starch
Fats and oils
ome glucose is used for respiration to release energy. Some is used to produce:
Cellulose - which strengthens the cell wall
Proteins - such as enzymes and chlorophyll
Plants also need nitrates to make proteins. These are absorbed from the soil as nitrate ions.

Answer 15

so what would this chemical be?

Answer 16

the chemical that is needed to make proteins? I'm a bit sure what you are asking me about?

Answer 17

im just wondering what the answer to the question at the start is

Answer 18

It is amino acids... the part here "Plants also need nitrates to make proteins" make it quite clear. Proteins are polymers of amino acids...

Answer 19

so amino acids are made from glucose and nitrates?

Answer 20

Well...not directly no.

Answer 21

Amino acids are made from intermediats of the citric acid cycle and other major pathways.

Answer 22

okay well i guess amino acids is the best answer, thanks for your help anyway :)

Answer 23

but for the citric acid cycle to work you need glucose, as you maybe know glucose is going throgh glycolysis in the start of the cellular respriaion cycle right? then next it enters what we call the citric acid cycle or Krebs cycle... and when product from the glycolysis enters there, then amino acids can be formed :)

Answer 24

I'll say it is a bit strange question :)

Answer 25

im only gcse level so i dont know any of that but anyway, i will go with amino acids

Answer 26

I'm not sure what gcse is :) I don't think we use a similar education system... is it not something high school like?

Answer 27

yeh well you have primary school (the first school you attend when you are little) then High school, so its the qualifications you acheive in high school