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Introduction Of Cellular Respiration And Anaerobic Respiration

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Lashawny Nash
Bio 141L Section 14

Introduction
Cellular respiration is the catabolic pathways of aerobic and anaerobic respiration, which break down organic molecules and use an electron transport chain for the production of ATP (Reece et al Chapter 9). Basically what that means is that we all need energy to function so the energy we get, we get it from the food we consume. The way that we harvest the energy is through cellular respiration. There are two main types of cellular respiration, an anaerobic respiration and an aerobic respiration. For gas change to happen that one final electron act as an acceptor in cellular respiration, and it processes the oxygen that was taken in and that is how aerobic respiration takes place. As for anaerobic respiration, it is a catabolic pathway that accepts the electrons at the end of the electron transport chain (Reece et al Chapter 9). So because of there have to be an exchange between oxygen and carbon dioxide with the environment and the cells, the total cellular respiration rate which is the same as the metabolic rate, this can happen estimating the measure of gas exchange from the individual (Marshall et al 1). Gas exchange can be used to estimate metabolic rates, this can happen using a respirometer. A respirometer measure the oxygen that get taken in by the organism. The metabolic rate is the overall sum of the energy that an animal have. There are a few things that can affect the metabolic rate, one being the mass. The

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