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    Cellular respiration is the process by which biological fuels are oxidized in the presence of an inorganic electron acceptor, such as oxygen, to drive...
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  • physiologic respiration is necessary to sustain cellular respiration and thus life in animals, the processes are distinct: cellular respiration takes place...
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  • molecule is released. Therefore, anaerobic respiration is less efficient than aerobic. Anaerobic cellular respiration and fermentation generate ATP in very...
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  • Look up respiration or respire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Respiration may refer to: Cellular respiration, the process in which nutrients are...
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    used by animal and plant cells in respiration. Cellular respiration involving oxygen is called aerobic respiration, which has four stages: glycolysis...
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  • of ATP. One example of cellular respiration creating cellular waste products are aerobic respiration and anaerobic respiration. Each pathway generates...
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    energy, an organism's cells metabolize the organic compounds through cellular respiration. Photosynthesis plays a critical role in producing and maintaining...
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  • tissues, where it is broken down via cellular respiration, or stored as glycogen. In cellular (aerobic) respiration, glucose and oxygen are metabolized...
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    order to obtain energy as ATP from a multi-step process known as cellular respiration, more specifically from oxidative phosphorylation at the mitochondrial...
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    Aerobic organism (category Cellular respiration)
    found. Obligate aerobes need oxygen to grow. In a process known as cellular respiration, these organisms use oxygen to oxidize substrates (for example sugars...
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    plants, animals, fungi, algae and most protists, need oxygen for cellular respiration, which extracts chemical energy by the reaction of oxygen with organic...
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  • The summary equation for cellular respiration is: C6H12O6 + 6 O2 → 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + Energy The process of cellular respiration also depends heavily on the...
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    because organisms need to perform cellular respiration to survive, and energy is lost as heat when cellular respiration is performed. That is also why there...
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    Mitochondrion (category Cellular respiration)
    which are produced in the cytosol. This type of cellular respiration, known as aerobic respiration, is dependent on the presence of oxygen. When oxygen...
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    Facultative anaerobic organism (category Cellular respiration)
    facultative anaerobic organism is an organism that makes ATP by aerobic respiration if oxygen is present, but is capable of switching to fermentation if...
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    Adenosine diphosphate (category Cellular respiration)
    phosphorylation produces 26 of the 30 equivalents of ATP generated in cellular respiration by transferring electrons from NADH or FADH2 to O2 through electron...
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    exergonic, according to the second law of thermodynamics. An example is cellular respiration. Symbolically, the release of free energy, ⁠ G {\displaystyle G}...
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    cells can perform anaerobic respiration by glycolysis. Additionally, most organisms can perform more efficient aerobic respiration through the citric acid...
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    breaking down of compounds (for example, of glucose to pyruvate by cellular respiration); or anabolic—the building up (synthesis) of compounds (such as proteins...
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    or gross, the former accounting for losses to processes such as cellular respiration, the latter not. Primary production is the production of chemical...
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    (in plastids) or cellular respiration (in mitochondria). One might predict that the loss of photosynthesis or cellular respiration would allow for the...
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    NADP+ is used by all forms of cellular life. NADP+ is essential for life because it is needed for cellular respiration. NADP+ differs from NAD+ by the...
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    Chemiosmosis (category Cellular respiration)
    (ATP) by the movement of hydrogen ions (H+) across a membrane during cellular respiration or photosynthesis. Hydrogen ions, or protons, will diffuse from a...
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  • pathway described above, it is primarily synthesized during both cellular respiration and photosynthesis by ATP synthase. ATP synthase couples the synthesis...
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    fermentation and undergo cellular respiration; however, facultative anaerobic organisms will both ferment and undergo respiration in the presence of oxygen...
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    through the surface of the cell. During life activities such as cellular respiration, several chemical reactions take place in the body. These are known...
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    Through cellular respiration, these organisms use oxygen to metabolise substances, like sugars or fats, to obtain energy. In this type of respiration, oxygen...
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    Pyruvate decarboxylation (category Cellular respiration)
    Pyruvate decarboxylation or pyruvate oxidation, also known as the link reaction (or oxidative decarboxylation of pyruvate), is the conversion of pyruvate...
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    Citric acid cycle (category Cellular respiration)
    L, Berg JM, Tymoczko JL (2002). "Section 18.6: The Regulation of Cellular Respiration Is Governed Primarily by the Need for ATP". Biochemistry. San Francisco:...
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    Submitochondrial particle (category Cellular respiration)
    A submitochondrial particle (SMP) is an artificial vesicle made from the inner mitochondrial membrane. They can be formed by subjecting isolated mitochondria...
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