Question

why is aerobic respiration also known as cellular respiration?????????????

Answer 1

Aerobic cellular respiration is the process in which our cells break down food and turn it into energy that cells need to perform their life functions. This lesson goes through the process, formula, and end results of aerobic cellular respiration.

Cellular Respiration

Cellular respiration is the process through which our cells get the energy to perform their functions. Since all living things are made of cells, and all cells need energy to perform life's functions, cellular respiration is necessary for all living things. There are two types of cellular respiration: aerobic and anaerobic. This lesson is going to concentrate on aerobic cellular respiration.

During aerobic respiration, oxygen is present, and this results in a larger amount of energy. Even though anaerobic cellular respiration lacks the presence of oxygen, it is still able to produce energy, just smaller amounts of it. This process is called fermentation.

During cellular respiration, food molecules are broken down from sugar molecules to energy molecules known as ATP. ATP is also considered to be the 'energy currency' of cells. ATP stores energy in a strong bond, and cells can harness this energy by breaking that bond, thereby removing a phosphate group and resulting in ADP, which can then be reconverted to ATP. At the end of anaerobic respiration, there are only two molecules of ATP produced. During aerobic cellular respiration, there are a maximum of 38 molecules of ATP formed.

The Process

Aerobic cellular respiration occurs mainly in eukaryotic cells. These are cells that contain a nucleus (brain of the cell) and organelles (little organs that each have their own job inside the cell). The process of aerobic cellular respiration takes place mostly inside of the mitochondria, an organelle that is known as the powerhouse of the cell.

Cellular respiration is a multiple step process that breaks down food into usable cellular energy.

There are three main stages to get from food molecules to ATP: glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and the electron transport chain

Answer 2

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⭐Cellular respiration is the process that cells use to break down food to use as an energy. Aerobic cellular respiration uses oxygen and yields many more ATP molecules than anaerobic cellular respiration, which does not use oxygen and yields only two ATP molecules.⭐

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