Cody Vewchar, March 5/08, 3/3

What we did today:

1. Talked about Pyruvate Oxidation and filled in our diagram in booklet
2. Mr. C got a caramel chocolate bar and showed us how the four stages of cellular respiration work
3. We started discussing the Krebs Cycle in more detail and started to fill in our booklets about it
4. Mr. C had to give us abit of homework and made us finish the diagram about the Krebs Cycle

Thoughts and Opinions

I thought this class was really interesting. I did not know any of it and learned a lot of new stuff. The whole time Mr. C was dividing up that chocolate bar all I could think about was how good it would be to eat it right now. During our discussion about Pyruvate Oxidation and the Krebs Cycle I was wondering how many enzymes it actually takes to perform these processes.

Above and Beyond

In this website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citric_acid_cycle is lists all the enzymes involved in the citric acid cycle. And in this website http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~brandt/Chem330/Pyruvate_DH.pdf it also talks about some enzymes involved in pyruvate oxidation.