Cellular Respiration Lab Report

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Cellular respiration is the process of creating ATP. There are three steps, glycolysis, citric acid cycle and electron transport chain. Not one step can occur without the other. Glycolysis is the anaerobic process of breaking down glucose into a useable form of energy. Within the cytosol of a cell a glucose molecule breaks down into 2 pyruvate molecules. The pyruvate molecules then move into the mitochondria where it releases a carboxyl group, and carbon dioxide is dispersed into the medium of the mitochodria. The NAD+ then turns into NADH and the acetyl is transformed into acetyl CoA. The citric acid cycle begins the combination of acetyl CoA with oxaloacetate which creates citric acid. The acid is then oxidized and releases 2 carbon dioxide

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