BISC 100 Chapter 6: Chapter 6.docx

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Aerobic harvest of food energy: cellular respiration requires a cell to exchange two gases with its surroundings, the cell takes in oxygen in the form of the o2 gas and gets rid of the waste co2, breathing results in the exchange of these two gases between your blood and the outside air, every molecule of co2 that you exhale was originally formed in one of the mitochondria of your body"s cells. The simplified equation for cellular respiration: c6h12o6 + 6o2 (cid:224) 6co2 + 6h2o + atp, glucose + oxygen (cid:224) carbon dioxide + water +energy, the main function of cellular respiration is to generate atp for cellular work, the process can produce around 32 atp molecules for each glucose molecule consumed, cellular respiration also transfers hydrogen atoms from glucose to oxygen forming water, this hydrogen transfer is key to why oxygen is so vital to the harvest of energy during cellular respiration.

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