Maria has drawn a flow chart using stars to track electron carriers (nadh and fadh2) during cellular respiration, but she has not completed her model. if twelve electron carriers are delivered to the electron transport chain (etc) per molecule of glucose, how many stars should she show being produced during glycolysis and pyruvate processing

During glycolysis, an anaerobic type of cellular respiration, generates 2 ATP molecules and 2 pyruvates. So, there would be 4 stars

Cellular respiration is how the cell processes and produces energy, ATP.

ATP is the energy currency of the cell, without its generation the cell would fail and cease to function. Now, ATP is produced through cellular respiration which occurs from the process of glycolysis, formation of acetyl coA, citric acid cycle and lastly, oxidative metabolism. 

an individual’s sex (i.e., whether they are a male or female) is determined by the sex chromosomes. most people have two sex chromosomes, one that is inherited from their mother and one that is inherited from their father. typically, females have two x chromosomes (xx) and males have one x chromosome and one y chromosome (xy). conditions caused by changes (“mutations”) in genes located on the x chromosome are considered x-linked.

x-linked recessive inheritance

most x-linked conditions are recessive. this means that in a person with two x chromosomes (most females), both copies of a gene (i.e., one on each x chromosome) must have a change or mutation whereas in a person with one x chromosome (most males), only one copy of a gene must have a mutation. a female with a mutation in one copy of a gene on the x chromosome is said to be a “carrier” for an x-linked condition. a male with a mutation in a gene on the x chromosome is typically affected with the condition. because females have two copies of the x chromosome and males have only one x chromosome, x-linked recessive diseases are more common among males than females. however, x-linked recessive diseases can occur in both males and females.

for x-linked recessive disorders, an unaffected carrier mother who has a mutation in a gene on the x chromosome can transmit either the x chromosome with this mutation or a “normal” x chromosome to her children. if the father is unaffected, none of her daughters will be affected and all of her daughters will be unaffected—since they will inherit at least one normal x chromosome from their father. however, each daughter will have a 50% chance of being an unaffected carrier like her mother and a 50% chance of both x chromosomes being normal.