Energy for the Body:
Oxidative Phosphorylation

Oxidation-Reduction Reactions Experiment

• ATP as Free-Energy Currency in the Body

• How Free-Energy Currency Works

• How is Food Used to Make the Reducing Agents Needed for the Production of ATP?

• How reducing agents NADH and FADH₂ able to generate ATP

• Coupled Reactions
  • Coupled Reactions to Generate ATP

• Structure and Function of the Mitochondria

• Oxidation-Reduction Reactions in the Electron-Transport Chain
  • Electron-Carrier Proteins

• ATP Synthetase Uses Energy From Proton Gradient to Generate ATP

• Summary
• Practice Problems