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Cellular Respiration
Cellular Respiration Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aerobic | Requiring air or oxygen for life or survival, used especially to refer to aerobic bacteria. |
| Anaerobic | used to describe an organism, a cell, a process or a mechanism that can function without air. |
| ATP | . Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is considered by biologists to be the energy currency of life. It is the high-energy molecule that stores the energy we need to do just about everything we do. |
| Cellular | is the basic structural, functional, and biological unit of all known living organisms. |
| Respiration | the act of respiring; inhalation and exhalation of air; breathing. |
| Fermentation | is an anaerobic process in which energy can be released from glucose even though oxygen is not available. |
| Glycolysis | is the process in which one glucose molecule is broken down to form two molecules of pyruvic acid (also called pyruvate). |
| Mitochondria | are organelles that act like a digestive system which takes in nutrients, breaks them down, and creates energy rich molecules for the cell. |