A patient is hyperventilating. The "blowing off" of excessive carbon dioxide causes a decrease in blood H+ concentration. How can the carbonic acid-bicarbonate buffer system function to correct this imbalance?
CO2 + H20 - H2CO3 + H+ + HCO3-

What will most likely happen in the absence of a cell membrane? a) photosynthesis will not take place. b) the cell will not store food, water, nutrients, and waste. c) energy will not be released during cellular respiration. d) substances will pass in and out of the cell in an uncontrolled manner.

Kp is the equilibrium constant for dissociation of the propionic acid dimer. what is the sign of the slope for a plot of the natural logarithm of kp vs. inverse temperature for this reaction?

What extra step distinguishes fermentation from glycolysis