Metabolic processes

Reflect on the course readings and current trends in scientific research. What intrigues you about the search for other life forms? Consider life at the cellular level. What similarities and differences in chemical processes would you expect to find? Provide details and refer to step-by-step metabolic processes in the textbook. What impact would the surrounding environment likely have on cellular activities, which metabolic steps might be different in order to create cellular energy and organic molecules? For example are different electron acceptors needed for the electron transport chain? If so, what might be useful or available? Are there examples of organisms on earth using this type of electron acceptor?