Question

What happens to the energy in the electrons as they travel through the proteins in the ETC? and what are the products of reactants of chemiosmosis and the electron transport chain?

Answer 1

Energy of electrons is used to generste ATP.

The products of chemosmosis and ETC are ATP and water in cellular respiration.

The electron transport chain is a series of electron transporters embedded in the inner mitochondrial membrane that shuttles electrons from NADH and FADH₂ to molecular oxygen. In this process, protons are pumped from the mitochondrial matrix to the intermembrane space, and oxygen is reduced to form water.

A sequence of electron carrier molecules (membrane proteins) that shuttle electrons during the redox reactions that release energy used to make ATP.

Chemiosmosis is the movement of ions across a semipermeable membrane, down their electrochemical gradient. An example of this would be the generation of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) by the movement of hydrogen ions across a membrane during cellular respiration or photosynthesis.