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Interrelate Respiratory System

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The respiratory system and the digestive system interrelate because the respiratory system takes the oxygen that it needs for the body from the outer side and brings it into the lungs and there it is diffused through the lungs into the blood stream. The circulatory system carries the oxygenated blood throughout the body in where the oxygen is exchanged for waste materials and the carbon dioxide is carried back to the lungs and let out of the atmosphere to exchange for the oxygen. The digestive system interrelates with the respiratory system because, the respiratory gives oxygen to the digestive system. The digestive system interrelates with the respiratory system because they both need energy to work
When oxygen and glucose reacts together …show more content…

ATP is stored in a cell. Energy is stored in lots of places that can be converted to ATP, glucose is stored as glycogen and this can be converted into an ATP by cells that contain mitochondria and muscles can also burn glycogen directly. Fatty acids can also be turned to ATP through the same method, the brain uses a lot of energy which challenges the metabolism of an organ that uses energy to work.

ATP is created through respiration in both animals and plants, the difference between them is that the plant gets their food from photosynthesis and animals through eating and the breakdown of the digestive system to obtain glucose for the creation of ATP. Energy is created through cell respiration and the process occurs in three steps when oxygen is present, the glycolysis, the Krebs cycle and the cytochrome system.
Glycolysis occurs in the cytoplasm of a cell and it is where the glucose molecule is broken down through molecules. The enzymes used removes the hydrogen from glucose which is called oxidation this is where hydrogen atoms are taken to the cytochrome system. In anaerobic respiration the glucose splits into 2 molecules of pyruvic acid and when oxygen is produced the pyruvic acid is broken down into carbon compounds in the Krebs cycle and when oxygen is not present the pyruvic acid is broken down to lactic …show more content…

The pyruvic acid from the glycolysis stage diffuses into a cell organelle called a mitochondria and they are shaped as a sausage structure in order to host a large surface area for respiration to take place. The pyruvic acid is a subject that more enzymes break down into the carbon compound and the diagram illustrates the Kerb’s cycle that consists of three main actions firstly the carbon element in the infinite cycle in where the two carbons compounds derived from pyruvic acids that binds with the carbon compound and this is always present in the cycle. Then the carbon dioxide is released when the oxygen that is presented in the aerobic respiration and combines with carbon from the carbon compounds that is released as carbon dioxide and therefore animals to breath it out in order to take the carbon dioxide out of the animal’s body. Enzymes oxidise the carbon compounds and they transport the hydrogen atoms to the cytochrome

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