Adenosine triphosphate overview

Figure 29.1 An overview of catabolic pathways for the degradation of food and the production of biochemical energy. The ultimate products of food catabolism are C02 and H2O, with the energy released in the citric acid cycle used to drive the endergonic synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) from adenosine diphosphate (ADP) plus phosphate ion, HOPO32-.

Figure 2. Cycles of life and death. A brief overview showing how paraquat (and similarly diquat) interacts with two of the most fundamental processes of life photosynthesis in the chloroplast and respiration in the mitochondrion. Abbreviations ADP, adenosine diphosphate ATP, adenosine triphosphate e, electron proton NAD and NADH, oxidised and reduced forms of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide NADP and NADPH, oxidised and reduced forms of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate Paraquat, paraquat radical Pi, inorganic phosphate superoxide radical.

An overview of catabolic pathways for the degradation of food and the production of biochemical energy. The ultimate products of food catabolism are CO H20, and adenosine triphosphate (ATP). 

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