Respiration in ...

Which of the following statements is/are false?

a. Cyanobacteria and green plants can prepare their own food.
b. The energy produced by plants is stored in the bonds of carbohydrates like glucose, sucrose and starch.
c. In green plants, all cells, tissues and organs photosynthesise.

In which of the following parts of eukaryotes does the breakdown of complex molecules to yield energy take place?

a. Chloroplast
b. Cytoplasm
c. Mitochondria

Respiratory substrates are the compounds that are oxidised during respiration. Which of the following are not respiratory substrates?

Which of the following parts are used by plants for gaseous exchange?

a. Stomata
b. Lenticels
c. Root nodules

Which of the following is utilised during the process of respiration in plants?

The breakdown of glucose to pyruvic acid is called glycolysis. It occurs in the __________ of a cell.

Glucose and fructose are phosphorylated by an enzyme hexokinase to give rise to which of the following?

In which of the following is less than seven percent of the energy in glucose released?

a. Aerobic respiration
b. Lactic acid fermentation
c. Alcohol fermentation

Which of the following statements is/are false?

a. In eukaryotes, aerobic respiration takes place within the cytoplasm.
b. In many prokaryotes, fermentation takes place under anaerobic conditions.
c. The metabolic pathway through which the electron passes from one carrier to another is called the electron transport system.

Which of the following assumptions is/are made to make calculations of the net gain of ATP for every glucose molecule oxidised?