Why living beings cannot survive without oxygen?
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(We breathe because oxygen is needed to burn the fuel [sugars and fatty acids] in our cells to produce energy.) (Oxygen is brought into the lungs via breathing, where it is transported by red blood cells to the entire body to be used to produce energy.
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Oxygen's primary function is to provide our body with energy. It all happens within the cells, in little organelles called mitochondria which are real energy generators: they use oxygen to transform nutriments from the digestive process into energy that can be used directly by the cell (ATP).
therefore, any living organism cannot survive without oxygen
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