Session 16 Guide

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All organisms require energy to live. To this end, the body, through metabolism, derives energy from the environment, converts it into a utilizable form for the cells, and uses this energy to build and keep its structures. This session takes you through an overview of metabolism, the energy calculations that govern it, and a start with carbohydrate catabolism. In this session, you will be able to: 

    • describe the overview of metabolism
    • apply the laws of thermodynamics in the maintenance of cellular functions
    • discuss the methods of ATP synthesis and processes that affect it
    • enumerate important biological reactions that use and produce energy
    • explain glycolysis and Krebs cycle

The following are your tasks for this session: 

  1. Go through the bioenergetics lesson. Answer the embedded questions in the lesson.
  2. Start with the carbohydrate catabolism lesson and answer the embedded questions in it. 
Main Reading References: Reading Modules on Introduction to Metabolism and Bioenergetics (pp. 1-11) and Catabolism (pp. 1-12).

If you have questions/clarifications, please use the designated forum board for this module.