Question

3. How would your respirometer readings change if your mealworms were_______? Explain your answer for each condition

A. moving?

B. Kept at a low environmental temperature before the experiment?

C. were food deprived?

D. Were fed a "gourmet" meal?

4. What would happen to the proton (H+) gradient in the mitochondria if:

A. the inner membrane were punctured?

B. The ATP synthase is blocked?

Answer 1

3.

A. if mealworms are moving then pressur will change which changes thereading

B. the rate of respiration would increase as the temperature increased, and decrease when the temperature decreased as well.

C. food deprived leads to changing metabolic activity and growth

4.

A. The process involves pumping of protons across the mitochondrial membrane and the proton gradient this forms drives the synthesis of ATP. ... Proton leak will increase oxygen consumption (uncoupled respiration, UCR) and the energy will be dissipated as heat instead of being trapped as 'useful energy', i.e. ATP

B. Damage to the electron transport chain, increased proton leakage, or severe hypoxia can lower Δp such that the ATP synthase reverses in the cell and starts to hydrolyse cytoplasmic ATP generated by glycolysis.

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