Cellular Respiration Research Paper

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What is cellular respiration? Cellular respiration, distinguished by two different types-aerobic (with oxygen) and anaerobic respiration (without oxygen), is a four-step procedure that describes the metabolic processes that occur in our body to break down, or catabolize, organic molecules, such as glucose, to assist in the production of ATP, or Adenosine Triphosphate. ATP, or Adenosine Triphosphate, as the name states, is a compound, or nucleoside, found in DNA and RNA, made up of one purine called adenine, a pentose sugar, and in this case, three phosphate groups. What is the purpose of ATP? The purpose of this compound is to release free energy, derived from the catabolism of glucose and oxygen, during the hydrolysis (the water is part of

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