Words to Energy Songs

Cellular Respiration: Aerobic Respiration

What are we doing? Cellular Respiration

What’s the first step called? Glycolysis

Who does it? All cells

Where? In the cytoplasm

What do we start with? Glucose!

What are we going to do? Break it in half

And we reduce some NAD and make some ATP ~ two!

Oh, we have plenty of oxygen, what are we going to do? Aerobic Respiration

What is the next step called? Transition, Prep!

Here we go (exhaling to represent CO2)…and we reduce some NAD

Two acetylCoA’s put one away

2 + 4 make six

Do the bit (reduce an NAD, pull off a CO2)

Make 5

Do the bit

Make 4

Make an ATP

Reduce and FAD

Reduce an NAD

And…

(repeat to represent two turns of the Citric Acid/Kreb’s Cycle)

Gather all your reduced NADs and FADs and take them to the top of your ETC ~ uh, uh

A-na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Fp, Q, cytachroma a

And you make some ATP, a lot of it, a lot of it, a lot of it, or… a lot of it, a lot of it

Who catches it at the bottom? Oxygen forming water

Cellular Respiration: Anaerobic Respiration

What are we doing? Cellular Respiration

What’s the first step called? Glycolysis

Who does it? All cells

Where? In the cytoplasm

What do we start with? Glucose!

What are we going to do? Break it in half

And we reduce some NAD and make some ATP ~ two!

Oh no, we don’t have any oxygen, what are we going to do? Fermentation!

How many choices do we have? Two!

You and I make lactic acid, makes our muscles sore

Plants and yeast make…(exhale)..alcohol

Either way, you oxidize your NAD

Photosynthesis

Light Dependent Reaction

Water, water, water, water, water (clap)

What are we going to do? Break it in half

What do we get? Oxygen and electrons (hands in peace sign)

Sweep, sweep!

Here comes the sun, traveling in waves, particles of light are called photons

And it gets the electrons excited!

A, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

pQ

and we make some ATP

Here comes the sun, traveling in waves, particles of light are called photons

And it gets the electrons excited!

A, na, na, na, na, na,

Who catches it? NADP forming reduced NADP

Then you, take some ATP and some reduced NADP to the Dark Reaction

or the Calvin Cycle or the Light-Independent Reaction

Light Independent Reaction

3C5 plus 3C1 makes 3C6

Break down to 6C3

Low

Use some ATP

Use some reduced NADP

On your 6C3

Take one away, PGAL!

Jazz hands

And your left with 5C3

Low

Use some ATP to build 3C5

Repeat, but when you take one away you say “glucose”