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Cellular Respiration Process

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There are three processes that all take part in Respiration, and they are all very similar. They are Glycolysis, the Krebs Cycle, and the Electron Transport Chain. These three processes help make up what we know as Cellular Respiration. Glycolysis is broken down into two parts: Investment and Harvest. In Harvest there is something called Glucose. The glucose, C6H12O6, combines with another related system called Fructose. Together these two make another process call Glyceraldehyde. In this process, Glyceraldehyde, G3P which has 3 phosphate, gets carried over to the second part of the Glycolysis processes called the Harvest. In Harvest, this is where the NADHs come into play and get somewhat discombobulated. The NADHs help carry over energy and create ATP and ADP. The NADH then loses its H and then distributes it to become 2 NAD. This cycle is only one of three in the Cellular Respiration process. …show more content…

In this cycle it is somewhat of a circle process, by circle I mean it is somewhat like the circle of life if you were to draw it out. First in this cycle, we have the Cytoplasm and the Mitochondria. These two key items help create the Pyruvate and oxygen for the cycle, C3H3O3. The formula for these two things shows if there is or is not any Fermentation Lactic Acid. The oxygen can differentiate between “Aerobic” or “Anaerobic”. We then take the formula, C3H3O3, and carry it up to represent CCC with the pyruvate. The NADH then come back into play when we carry over the 3 CCC and turn it into CCCCCC, also know as the Citric Acid. Then we carry over the CCCCCCs through an enzyme and it turns into now only 5 CCCCCs. As this cycle continues after the 5 Cs, it stays with 4 CCCCs and starts the process all over again. This process helped create FADH2, NADH, ATP, and CO2, which all equals up to 1

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