Production of water at the end of respiration.
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Answer:
Respiration is a process of production of energy in the form ATP by the oxidation of simple sugar i.e., glucose. Glucose is produced in cells by the breakdown of more complex carbohydrates. This glucose then converted into the 3 carbon compound i.e., pyruvate in the cytoplasm of the cell which then enters into the mitochondria where respiration takes place and is called as cellular respiration. The overall chemical change that occurs in cellular respiration can be represented by a fairly simple chemical equation:
6C
6
H
12
O
6
+ 6O
2
→ 6 CO
2
+ 6 H
2
O + 36 ATP
That equation says that six molecules of glucose (6C
6
H
12
O
6
) react with six molecules of oxygen (O
2
) to form six molecules of carbon dioxide (CO
2
), six molecules of water (H
2
O) and 36 molecules of ATP.
- Answer:
The electron transport chain is the third and final step of cellular respiration. ... Toward the end of the electron transport chain, the hydrogen from the coenzymes meets the oxygen that the cell has consumed and reacts with it to form water. In this way, water is created as a byproduct of the metabolism reaction.