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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Biology (section Cellular respiration)
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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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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Photosynthesis (redirect from Photosynthesis and Respiration)
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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Human iron metabolism (section Cellular respiration)
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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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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Oxygen (section Photosynthesis and respiration)
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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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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Metabolism (redirect from Cellular metabolism)
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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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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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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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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Metabolic pathway (section Cellular respiration)
cells can perform anaerobic respiration by glycolysis. Additionally, most organisms can perform more efficient aerobic respiration through the citric acid...
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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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Symbiogenesis (redirect from Symbiotic theory of cellular evolution)
(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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Nucleoside triphosphate (section Other cellular roles)
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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two main processes that contribute to ecosystem respiration are photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Photosynthesis uses carbon-dioxide and water,...
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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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strenuous activity, they require large amounts of oxygen to conduct cellular respiration, which generates CO2 (and therefore HCO3− and H+) as byproducts....
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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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sulfide is toxic to humans and most other animals by inhibiting cellular respiration in a manner similar to hydrogen cyanide. When it is inhaled or its...
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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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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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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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extermination camps. Hydrogen cyanide, a poisonous gas that interferes with cellular respiration, was first used as a pesticide in California in the 1880s. Research...
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