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The day was finally here. The day of the magic 

show that Bryan and Angela were so excited to 

see. They heard that the magician was going to be 

performing the following acts: 

Photosynthesis,Glycolysis, the Kreb's Cycle, and the 

Electron Transport Chain.

"This is not going to be your typical magical show," 

said the magician to the audience, "you are going 

to have to be involved and move to different rooms 

within this cell." The first one that the audience 

had to move to was the Chloroplast. Here, Bryan 

and Angela witnessed the magician turn carbon 

dioxide and water into glucose (AKA sugar) and 

oxygen. The magician called this act 

Photosynthesis. 

The next room that the audience moved to was the 

Cytoplasm. Here,the magician was to perform Glycolysis 

which is where he breaks down the glucose from earlier into 

two pyruvic acids. He picked Bryan and Angela to provide him 

with energy. "Don't worry," he said, "there will be 

opportunities to provide oxygen for the next act but not this 

one because it is anaerobic." In order to provide the magician 

with energy that he needed to start the act, Bryan and 

Angela had to chant "ATP". The magician assured them that 

he would get that energy back to them, and sure enough he 

did, creating four ATP molecules, in which he gave Bryan and 

Angela each one. Then he removed four electrons and passed 

them to NAD+ which his assistant then sets them onto NADH 

which holds them until they can be transferred to the next 

room. The pyruvic acid made is used later on in the different 

acts. 

Before the audience left to the next room, the 

magician showed them what would happen if he did 

not have volunteers to provide oxygen. This was a 

bonus act called Fermentation, in which energy would 

be released from food molecules. The first type he 

showed the audience was alcoholic fermentation in 

which the pyruvic acid and NADH, produced earlier, is 

turned into Alcohol, carbon dioxide, and NAD+. The 

second type is lactic acid fermentation in which pyrvic 

acid and NADH is turned into lactic acid and NAD+.

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