Question

54 Cellular respiration is essentially a/an
A) Oxidation
B) Reduction
process.
C) Redox
D) Hydrogenation​

Answer 1

a) oxidation

process

d) hydrogenetion

Answer 2

Cellular respiration is essentially a/an A) Oxidation.

Explanation:

• Cellular respiration is an oxidation reduction reaction.
• Cellular respiration is an oxidative process whereby an electron donor is oxidized and oxygen is reduced to produce carbon dioxide, water, and energy.
• The overall chemical reaction of cellular respiration converts one six carbon molecule of glucose and six molecules of oxygen into six molecules of carbon dioxide and six molecules of water.
• So the carbons in the glucose become oxidized and the oxygens become reduced.
• Cellular respiration is the process by which organisms combine oxygen with foodstuff molecules diverting the chemical energy in these substances into life sustaining activities and discarding as waste products, carbon dioxide and water.
• While most aerobic respiration (with oxygen) takes place in the cell's mitochondria and anaerobic respiration (without oxygen) takes place within the cell's cytoplasm.
• The reactions of cellular respiration can be grouped into three stages: glycolysis the Krebs cycle (also called the citric acid cycle) and electron transport.