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Cellular Respiration Lab Report

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While they may not have been categorized as a super food, pears contain a multitude nutrients, vitamins, and minerals that encourage weight loss, antioxidant activity, and improve digestion (OrganicFacts.net, 2018). As we consume pears the cells in our bodies assume the task of extracting these nutrients and metabolizing them into energy. Hence, the ingeniously engineered and highly efficient process of cellular respiration accomplishes this task in four complex steps (Daempfle, 2016). To start, a small amount of ATP energy is utilized to initiate the first step of cellular respiration, glycolysis, which converts glucose to either pyruvic acid or pyruvate. Utilizing a series of chemical reactions in the cytoplasm, a glucose molecule is split in half to form two molecules of pyruvic acid. Another series of cellular reactions occur, ultimately resulting in the production of 4 ATP energy molecules. …show more content…

This process occurs when pyruvic acid donates its high energy electrons to NAD+, which forms NADH. While no ATP energy is produced during this step, shuttling acetyl-CoA and the high energy electrons attached to NADH into the mitochondrion sets the stage for the third step of cellular respiration. The Krebs cycle, utilizes enzymes to harvest and transform the stored energy in acetyl-CoA into additional NADH and FADH2 molecules. As the Krebs cycle churns to break down carbon and produce more high energy electrons for NADH and FADH2 molecules to transport, it also generates 2 ATP energy molecules. Nonetheless, most of the energy generated during this step of cellular respiration will be produced by the NADH and FADH2 molecules once the complete the fourth and final step of cellular

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One molecule of ATP is generated for each molecule of acetyl-CoA that enters the cycle. Electron carries that are generated into glycoses and energy from CAC that creates large quantities of ATP. Electrons are used to pass through the chain and move five protons across the mitochondrial membrane cell against the proton. This will result I a force to make the ATP. 14.

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From the 3 carbon compound molecule the 2 phosphate that is attached to get broken off. The 2 phosphate that 2 ADP to make 2 ATP. This leaves you with a net of 2 ATP. At the end of this process you would be left with 2 pyruvates which will then lead you to the Krebs Cycle.

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The stomata are the most critical piece to this process, as this is where CO2 enters and can be stored, and where water and O2 exit. Cellular respiration also known as oxidative metabolism is important to convert biochemical energy from nutrients in the cells of living organisms to useful energy known as adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Without cellular respiration living organisms would not be able to sustain life. This process is done by cells exchanging gases within its surroundings to create adenosine triphosphate commonly known as ADT, which is used by the cells as a source of energy. This process is done through numerous reactions; an example is metabolic pathway.

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Task 3 – Mitochondria Mitochondria are known as the powerful parts of the cell. It is an organelle in cells that allows respiration to take place. The chemical reaction that lets out energy from glucose is called respiration. When this happens in mitochondria the body gets energy for it to work properly. Mitochondria is made of two membranes and the outer membrane covers the organelle and is like skin.

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Introduction Cellular respiration is a process that all living organisms undergo to produce energy that can be used by each individual cell. It involves a series of enzyme-catalyzed reactions that break down organic molecules to produce chemical energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) (Grens et al. 2008). The energy is synthesized in three separate stages in cellular respiration: glycolysis, Krebs cycle, and the electron transport chain. Glycolysis and the Krebs cycle are both anaerobic pathways because they do not need oxygen to form energy, while the electron transport chain does use oxygen in oxidative phosphorylation (Grens et al. 2008).

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Cellular respiration is a set of metabolic reactions and processes that take place in the cells of organisms to convert biochemical energy from nutrients into ATP and then release waste. Cellular respiration is a metabolic pathway that breaks down glucose to make ATP. ATP is Adenosine Triphosphate is an organic chemical that is found in many processes and is in all life forms. During cellular respiration, It explains four different steps on how the whole system works. It goes Glycolysis, Pyruvate Oxidation, Citric acid cycle, and Oxidative phosphorylation.

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Introduction Cellular respiration is the process by which cells obtain energy from the breakdown of glucose and oxygen into ATP, the cell’s main form of energy, and carbon dioxide and water. The overall equation for respiration is: C6H12O6 + O2 → CO2 + H2O + Energy Respiration that results in the complete oxidation of glucose into carbon dioxide and water occurs in three steps. Respiration begins with glycolysis, which is an anaerobic process that occurs in the cytosol of the cell that ends with the formation of pyruvate from glucose in the absence of oxygen (Everet et al 2013). In the presence of oxygen, glycolysis is followed by the citric acid cycle and the electron transport chain, both of which take place in the mitochondria (Everet

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