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cellular respiration
vocabulary
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aerobic | Requiring air or oxygen for life or survival, used especially to refer to aerobic bacteria. (3) (physiology) Pertaining to respiration occurring in the presence of oxygen |
anaerobic | may be used to describe an organism, a cell, a process or a mechanism that can function without air |
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 respiration | is a set of metabolic reactions and processes that take place in the cells of organisms to convert biochemical energy from nutrients into adenosine triphosphate (ATP), and then release waste products. |
fermentation | is an anaerobic process in which energy can be released from glucose even though oxygen is not available. Fermentation occurs in yeast cells, and a form of fermentation takes place in bacteria and in the muscle cells of animals. |
Glycolysis | is the process in which one glucose molecule is broken down to form two molecules of pyruvic acid |
Mitochondria | They are organelles that act like a digestive system which takes in nutrients, breaks them down, and creates energy rich molecules for the cell. The biochemical processes of the cell are known as cellular respiration. |