what is cellular respiration
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cellular respiration, 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.
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- Cellular respiration is a collection of metabolic events that take place inside cells to transform biological energy acquired from food into the chemical molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
- Metabolism is a collection of chemical events that keep an organism's cells alive. There are two types of these:
- The process of breaking molecules to produce energy is known as catabolism.
- Anabolism is the process of the body's cells generating all of the substances they require.
- As a result, respiration is a catabolic process, in which big molecules are broken down into smaller molecules, providing energy for cellular functions.
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