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    Lesson Overview

    Cellular Respiration: An Overview

    Lesson Overview
    9.1 Cellular Respiration: An Overview

    Lesson Overview

    Cellular Respiration: An Overview

    THINK ABOUT IT
    You feel weak when you are hungry because food serves as a source of energy. How does the food you eat get converted into a usable form of energy for your cells?

    Lesson Overview

    Cellular Respiration: An Overview

    Chemical Energy and Food


    Where do organisms get energy?

    Lesson Overview

    Cellular Respiration: An Overview

    Chemical Energy and Food


    Where do organisms get energy? Organisms get the energy they need from food.

    Lesson Overview

    Cellular Respiration: An Overview

    Chemical Energy and Food


    Food provides living things with the chemical building blocks they need to grow and reproduce. Food molecules contain chemical energy that is released when its chemical bonds are broken.

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    Cellular Respiration: An Overview

    Chemical Energy and Food


    Energy stored in food is expressed in units of calories. A Calorie is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius. 1000 calories = 1 kilocalorie, or Calorie. Cells use all sorts of molecules for food, including fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. The energy stored in each of these molecules varies because their chemical structures, and therefore their energy-storing bonds, differ. Cells break down food molecules gradually and use the energy stored in the chemical bonds to produce compounds such as ATP that power the activities of the cell.

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    Cellular Respiration: An Overview

    Overview of Cellular Respiration


    What is cellular respiration?

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    Cellular Respiration: An Overview

    Overview of Cellular Respiration


    What is cellular respiration? Cellular respiration is the process that releases energy from food in the presence of oxygen.

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    Cellular Respiration: An Overview

    Overview of Cellular Respiration


    If oxygen is available, organisms can obtain energy from food by a process called cellular respiration. The summary of cellular respiration is presented below. In symbols: 6 O2 + C6H12O6 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + Energy In words: Oxygen + Glucose Carbon dioxide + Water + Energy The cell has to release the chemical energy in food molecules (like glucose) gradually, otherwise most of the energy would be lost in the form of heat and light.

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    Cellular Respiration: An Overview

    Stages of Cellular Respiration


    The three main stages of cellular respiration are glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and the electron transport chain.

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    Cellular Respiration: An Overview

    Stages of Cellular Respiration


    Glycolysis produces only a small amount of energy. Most of glucoses energy (90%) remains locked in the chemical bonds of pyruvic acid at the end of glycolysis.

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    Cellular Respiration: An Overview

    Stages of Cellular Respiration


    During the Krebs cycle, a little more energy is generated from pyruvic acid.

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    Cellular Respiration: An Overview

    Stages of Cellular Respiration


    The electron transport chain produces the bulk of the energy in cellular respiration by using oxygen, a powerful electron acceptor.

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    Cellular Respiration: An Overview

    Oxygen and Energy


    Pathways of cellular respiration that require oxygen are called aerobic. The Krebs cycle and electron transport chain are both aerobic processes. Both processes take place inside the mitochondria.

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    Cellular Respiration: An Overview

    Oxygen and Energy


    Gylcolysis is an anaerobic process. It does not directly require oxygen, nor does it rely on an oxygen-requiring process to run. However, it is still considered part of cellular respiration. Glycolysis takes place in the cytoplasm of a cell.

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    Cellular Respiration: An Overview

    Comparing Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration


    What is the relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration?

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    Cellular Respiration: An Overview

    Comparing Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration


    What is the relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration? Photosynthesis removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and cellular respiration puts it back. Photosynthesis releases oxygen into the atmosphere, and cellular respiration uses that oxygen to release energy from food.

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    Cellular Respiration: An Overview

    Comparing Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration


    Photosynthesis and cellular respiration are opposite processes. The energy flows in opposite directions. Photosynthesis deposits energy, and cellular respiration withdraws energy. The reactants of cellular respiration are the products of photosynthesis and vice versa.

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    Cellular Respiration: An Overview

    Comparing Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration


    The release of energy by cellular respiration takes place in plants, animals, fungi, protists, and most bacteria. Energy capture by photosynthesis occurs only in plants, algae, and some bacteria.

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