Imagine That You Have Shrunk to Microscopic Size and That

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Essay

Imagine that you have shrunk to microscopic size and that you are travelling through the brain. As you stand on top of the brain stem and look toward the back part of the brain, you see a structure about the size of a small fist that looks like a "little brain." What structure of the brain have you encountered? What function is associated with this "lesser brain"?

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Definitions:

Aerobic Respiration

A process in which cells convert glucose and oxygen into energy, carbon dioxide, and water, occurring in the mitochondria.

Citric Acid Cycle

A key metabolic pathway that takes place in the mitochondria of cells, where acetyl CoA is oxidized to produce energy in the form of ATP.

Electron Transfer Phosphorylation

A process where energy from electron transfer is used to add a phosphate to ADP, forming ATP, important in cellular energy production.