AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The final electron acceptor is oxygen (O2). Oxygen has a high electronegativity; thus, oxygen’s high affinity for electrons makes it an ideal acceptor for low-energy electrons. With the electrons, hydrogen is added to oxygen forming water as the final product.

Detailed explanation-2: -Oxygen is the final electron acceptor in this respiratory cascade, and its reduction to water is used as a vehicle by which to clear the mitochondrial chain of low-energy, spent electrons. The enzyme that catalyzes this process, cytochrome oxidase, spans the mitochondrial membrane.

Detailed explanation-3: -Oxygen is our terminal electron acceptor. We call this process respiration, specifically aerobic respiration. We breath in oxygen, it diffuses into our cells and to our mitochondria where it is used as the final acceptor of electrons from our electron transport chains.

Detailed explanation-4: -Oxygen acts as the final electron acceptor in the electron transfer chain, resulting in the formation of H2O. This is essential because without it, the electron transfer chain cannot function resulting in a lack of oxidative phosphorylation in the inner membrane of the mitochondria.