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Respiratory chain
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- Summary
- The respiratory chain ensures the transfer of electrons from reduced compounds to oxygen. In doing so, it generates a large amount of ATP.
- Learning objectives
- To understand how energized electrons lead to the creation of a proton motive force.
- To understand how the proton motive force helps ATP synthase produce ATP.
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- Keywords
- respiratory-chain, ATP-synthase, energy, mitochondrion
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