muscle twitches that come in old age, could be linked to a problem with availability of ATP farming pesticide that inhibits mitochondrial function that could get into water supplies in rural areas (where more Parkinson's is seen) a neurotoxin that accumulates in mitochondria and inhibits cell respiration (when taken, get symptoms of Parkinson's almost overnight) process by which plants, algae, and some bacteria use the sun's energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into sugars CO2 + H2O -> O2 + sugars the metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules sugars + O2 -> H2O + CO2 + ATP when you lose an H+ ion or remove electrons (ex

1. Parkinson's disease

muscle twitches that come in old age, could be linked to a problem with availability of ATP

2. Rotinon

farming pesticide that inhibits mitochondrial function that could get into water supplies in rural areas (where more Parkinson's is seen)

3. MPTP (made accidentally by heroin addicts)

a neurotoxin that accumulates in mitochondria and inhibits cell respiration (when taken, get symptoms of Parkinson's almost overnight)

4. Photosynthesis

process by which plants, algae, and some bacteria use the sun's energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into sugars
CO2 + H2O -> O2 + sugars

5. Respiration

the metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules
sugars + O2 -> H2O + CO2 + ATP

6. Oxidation

when you lose an H+ ion or remove electrons (ex. in respiration when C6H12O6 -> 6CO2)

7. Reduction

when you gain H+ ions or add electrons (ex. in respiration when 6O2 -> 6H2O)

8. FADH2

The reduced from (carries electrons) of FAD (flavin adenine dinucleotide) other main electron carrier in cellular respiration (NADH is the most common)

9. Cellular Respiration

when a glucose molecule goes through glycolysis in the cytoplasm and is turned into two pyruvates that then (if oxygen is present) are transported into the mitochondria to go through an intermediary step and transform into acetyl CoA's which then go through the Citric Acid cycle which produces NADH and FADH2 that power the Electron Transport Chain and Chemiosmosis in the membrane of the mitochondria
this all produces a net gain of about 30 ATP

10. Glycolysis

a molecule of glucose is broken into two molecules of pyruvate (glucose with 6 carbons, each pyruvate with 3 carbons)
net gain: 2 ATP, 2 NADH