Respiration Flashcards

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Aerobic respiration

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Glucose + oxygen > carbon dioxide + water

Needs energy to work. Energy transfer supplies all the energy needed for living processes.

Sugar reacts with oxygen

It’s an exothic reaction

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Anaerobic respiration

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Glucose > lactic acid

Without oxygen

Take place in the animal cells

Glucose is incompletely broken down to form Lactic acid

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The respond to exercise

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Muscles store glucose as the carbohydrates glycogen

Heart rate > increase

Breathing rate > increase

Removes carbon dioxide from the muscles

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Metabolism

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Is all the reactions sum up in the body.

Energy transfer by respiration reaction in cells which heats the environment

It makes molecules or breaks them down

Example: glucose to starch

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The reactions

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The reaction of photosynthesis

The reaction of respiration

Glucose to starch, glycogen and cellose

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